This is the devastation caused by a lorry fire which closed the A500 for most of yesterday (July 24).
These pictures show the after-math of the HGV blaze on the westbound side of the A500 between the A5020 and the Shavington turn-off.
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.
Drivers are facing traffic delays after an accident closed a busy South Cheshire route.
It happened on the A5020 near Weston, Crewe, at around 9am today (July 10).
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.
Ministers have earmarked £15 million for a key link road to help boost growth for Crewe and Nantwich. Department for Transport today confirmed £15.64m funding for the 1.1km Crewe Green Link Road South dual carriageway project.
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.
Cheshire East councillors have voted through the final version of a new Local Plan Strategy which is to be sent to Government for endorsement. The Plan proposes a number of policies which impact on Nantwich and surrounding areas over the next 15 to 20 years.
The man who died when his car and a lorry crashed on the A51 bypass in Nantwich was named today as Richard Hopley. The 56-year-old, from Crewe, was travelling towards the A500 at Cheerbrook roundabout, Willaston when his car collided with a truck.
A man died when his car collided with a lorry on the A500 bypass in Nantwich. The crash closed the busy single carriageway route between the Cheerbrook and Peacock roundabouts at Willaston.
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.
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.
Eighteen volunteers of Nantwich Litter Group blitzed rubbish in the Barony area of the town. Workers tidied Barony Park, Barony Road, Middlewich Road up to the A500 roundabout, and smaller nearby roads.
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