Police have closed the A500 between the M6 and Nantwich as fire crews tackle a lorry blaze.
A large amount of hay being transported by the lorry is on fire, and large plumes of smoke are covering the Shavington bypass carriageways.
A lorry driver has been sentenced over a horror M6 motorway smash involving nine vehicles at junction 16 for Nantwich.
Barry Powell, 62, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving and was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years.
A five-vehicle smash has closed the M6 motorway northbound in Cheshire between junctions 16 for Nantwich and 18 for Holmes Chapel.
Drivers are warned to stay clear of the M6 after the accident today (July 17).
Nantwich and Crewe drivers are being warned that work on the A500 and junction 16 of the M6 will start on Monday 23 June. Two schemes costing a total of £8 million will be delivered by the Highways Agency, one on behalf of Cheshire East Council.
Roads around Nantwich were gridlocked for much of yesterday as the town’s Jazz Festival swung into its third day. A crash on the M6 motorway in the morning led to a closure between junctions 17 and 18 and thousands of vehicles using surrounding routes.
Nantwich drivers are being warned about major works about to start on the A500 on the approach to the M6. Work is starting on multi-million pound road improvements scheme designed to improve traffic between Crewe and Nantwich and the motorway.
This “pretty boy” ruffled a few feathers among motorway patrol staff monitoring the M6 near Nantwich. Operators were stunned to find the parakeet staring at them when they checked on cameras overlooking junction 16 of the motorway in Cheshire.
Motorists faced long delays after a lorry crashed and overturned at junction 16 of the M6. The northbound carriageway was closed, and the southbound left heavily congested after the accident at the Nantwich turn-off.
Two major road schemes to improve the A500 from Nantwich to M6, and access to Crewe town centre, have been approved by the Government. More than £6.5 million will be spent widening the A500 single lane approach to junction 16, and on a new Basford West Spine road.
More than 100 motorway driving offences were spotted in Cheshire and the North West during a police crackdown. The North West Motorway Police Group held a day action targeting drivers on Cheshire’s M6, M56, M62 and other routes.
Thousands of drivers were delayed for hours in Cheshire today after the M6 was closed because of a lorry fire. The truck carrying plastic pallets caught fire on the northbound carriageway near Knutsford.
Drivers in Nantwich and Crewe are warned to avoid the A500 and M6 junction 16 after a fire involving a lorry carrying cooking oil. The heavy goods vehicle overturned on the northbound sliproad at junction 16.
Rogue motorway drivers in Cheshire were targeted as part of a police clampdown on criminals. North West Motorway Police Group’s Operation Coalition stopped 312 vehicles in one day, and uncovered 111 traffic offences.
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