Crash on A13 causes traffic chaos

8:31am Friday 5th October 2012 in Echo News By Gina Marden

A CRASH on the A13 left motorists facing traffic chaos.

The crash happened early on Friday morning when at least one vehicle is believed to have struck the central reservation at the Five Bells interchange at Basildon.

One carriageway was closed while repairs were carried out but the closures led to queuing traffic across Basildon and on the A127.

*This story will be updated as we have more details.

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Basildon.lad.21 says...
11:52am Fri 5 Oct 12

Went past this about 30mins ago, and looking at the state of the car, and emergency services on the scene, it looks as if this driver will not get out of it alive. Very badly crushed. It appears it has been in a collision with a lorry.

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bob7 says...
4:40pm Fri 5 Oct 12

Is this the same accident as one very early this morning or another one? One lane near where the snack bar is located was shut at 07:00. No sign of any vehicles but the armco was flattened.

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cathyw says...
4:55pm Fri 5 Oct 12

A13 about 12 ish we went past 2 lorries and a red van that had been in an accident. the traffic was bad, being diverted along the A128 ( I think) and on the way home traffic was still bad. but nit sure if that was due to the same accident or not.

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bob7 says...
7:27pm Fri 5 Oct 12

Just read the report of a man being arrested after a second crash. Not a good day to be on the A13.

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Shoot Ferals says...
11:42pm Fri 5 Oct 12

Theres never a good day on the A13, any accident has the same effect choas; when the A13 ran through Pitsea 40 years ago and you had to go round the roundabot with the staute on it outside Lloyds bank it was still a crap road, in 30 years time nothing will have changed....all due to the same reasons crap drivers and to much speed.

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Brunning999 says...
6:33am Sat 6 Oct 12

Someone please tell me this was not the same crash that caused mayhem with traffic using the A127 at 6pm the same a matter of 8 hours later?

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maywood says...
9:03am Sat 6 Oct 12

Shoot Ferals wrote:
Theres never a good day on the A13, any accident has the same effect choas; when the A13 ran through Pitsea 40 years ago and you had to go round the roundabot with the staute on it outside Lloyds bank it was still a crap road, in 30 years time nothing will have changed....all due to the same reasons crap drivers and to much speed.
Hmmmmmm I was comeing back from London towards Stamford le Hope.Approching the Tilbury turn off Blue lights come on,to cut story short,I pulled into the BP Garage,reason for the stop,I was asked "why are you only doing 50mph"?.

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Audioman says...
4:25pm Sat 6 Oct 12

What's wrong with the A13 ?? and why do
drivers always crash on it ???
They must be in a hurry to get somewhere !!!

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APR says...
11:22am Sun 7 Oct 12

It will probably end up like the A127, with average speed cameras.

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tatersalad says...
11:41am Sun 7 Oct 12

Brunning999 wrote:
Someone please tell me this was not the same crash that caused mayhem with traffic using the A127 at 6pm the same a matter of 8 hours later?
This was not the same crash that caused mayhem with traffic using the A127 at 6pm. There, I told you.

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