A man was taken to hospital after a crash in the early hours of the morning in Oldham.
10.03.2023 - 10:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Snow plunged the M62 into chaos overnight as drivers got stuck for up to SEVEN - hours and some even abandoned their cars in the blizzards.
As temperatures plunged to below freezing overnight and snow fell over the Pennines near Greater Manchester, stretches of the motorway were shut off leaving drivers stuck in huge queues of traffic with miles of tailbacks. Strong winds also caused highways officers to close off lanes on both carriageways of the M62 near Rochdale.
Just before 3am, one driver Zoe tweeted a picture of long queues ahead on the M62 and said: "After 3.5 hours moving at a snail pace you finally think you're making progress.
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"Then you see this ahead.. yeah I'm going nowhere! M62 + snow = FML." In a later tweet, she said it took four hours to get off the motorway.
At around 3.30am, Naomi Roberts tweeted: "4 hours to reach J22 - lorries broken down and cars abandoned on the other side... turns in to one lane and just a sheet of ice."
Some drivers are still stuck this morning, with the chaos expected to continue into rush-hour. In a tweet posted at 6.11am, Jessica Baker said: "Been stuck on #M62 for hours now! This is ridic!"
"She described the scenes as 'carnage'. Another tweet posted by Simon Peach at 6.20am this morning said: "If you are thinking of using the M62 this morning, I wouldn’t advise it. I’ve moved around 15 miles in six hours."
And in another tweet, one person posted: "7 hours on the m62 and still going! where are the gritters?!!!"
According to traffic alert service Inrix, 'severe delays' remain in both directions on the motorway this morning from junction 21 for Milnrow to junction
A man was taken to hospital after a crash in the early hours of the morning in Oldham.
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