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Walsall motorway meltdown
For a second day, drivers using the M6 faced long delays during the morning rush-hour as two more accidents occurred in the road-works between Junction 8 and Junction 10a.
Just 24 hours after three separate collisions caused 20 mile tailbacks on the motorway and gridlock on surrounding roads, further traffic chaos was caused by more accidents. At 6.30am, a crash between a lorry and a car on the southbound carriageway between Junction 10 and Junction 9 led to a lane closure and at about 7.10am, three cars were involved in a collision on the northbound carriageway between Junction 8 and Junction 9.
Work started more than a year ago to widen the motorway and use the hard shoulder as a fourth lane. Residents in Murdoch Way, Beechdale woke up one morning last April to find diggers tearing up the trees that separated their gardens from the M6. In September, narrow lanes and a 50mph speed limit were introduced on one of the busiest sections of motorway in Europe. The hard shoulder is not expected to be available to motorists until at least 2012.