Re-cap: Two lanes of the M62 closed near Brighouse after accident

Traffic now moving

The latest accident on the M62, involving a van and a car, has been cleared quickly.

It has been shifted and all four lanes westbound between J26 M606 / A58 Whitehall Road / A638 Bradford Road (Chain Bar) and J25 A644 (Brighouse) have no re-opened.

It means traffic is still queuing back to junction 27 but the main carriageway is moving once again.

Traffic building

Here’s traffic building, but it looks likely this incident will be resolved quickly:

Congestion building

Our reporter is on the M62 and says it’s “stop start” traffic:

Another M62 accident

Two lanes of the M62 are blocked and there’s queueing traffic due to accident, van and car involved and recovery work on M62 Westbound between J26 M606 / A58 Whitehall Road / A638 Bradford Road (Chain Bar) and J25 A644 (Brighouse).

Lanes one and (of four) is blocked.

Re-cap of M62 incident

Here’s the story on this morning’s accident on the M62 where a lorry and two cars were involved in a collision.

Lorry and 2 cars crash

A lorry and two cars were involved in an accident on the M62 westbound at around 7am this morning.

We’ve not been told of any serious injury caused.

The incident took place near to the farm, between J23 A640 / A643 (Huddersfield) and J22 A672 (Rishworth Moor).

Lanes one and two (of three) were closed and the traffic was being temporarily so that the vehicles involved could move off safely.

Queues and congestion was back to to J25 A644 (Brighouse) at the height of the lane closures.

Two lanes were closed but were re-opened at around 8am.

Traffic cameras show the motorway is moving once again.

Travel time update

We’re being told by Highways that travel time is around 25 minutes.

The M62 is now fully re-open and I can see on the traffic cameras that it’s beginning to move around Junction 25 too.

Delays on the network

Metro says there are “substantial delays” on the bus network this morning.

Delays on local roads

Traffic avoiding the M62 has made local roads busy.

We’re hearing New Hey Road over Outlane is busy, plus it’s slow on the A640 Huddersfield Road, Saddleworth, heading from Dowry Reservoir to Denshaw due to extra traffic avoiding the M62 crash.

Delays at Ainley Top

Traffic is now beginning to move around the accident site, but there are still long delays.

Here’s the scene at Junction 25 - the Ainley Top slip is clear but traffic is slow on the main carriageway.

Lanes now re-open

All lanes on the M62 have re-opened now following the earlier collision westbound between J23 and J22.

Traffic flowing however there are severe residual delays behind with congestion extending back to J25.

At the scene

This is the scene of the accident - Highways England and emergency services are at the scene

Delays now back to Junction 25

Highways England say delays on the M62 westbound are back to Junction 25.

This is the traffic camera right now at Junction 25.

Travel time over an hour

Highways are telling us that travel time is over an hour westbound on the M62 after the earlier accident between Junctions 22 and 23.

Two lanes closed on the M62

There’s queueing traffic due to multi-vehicle accident on the M62.

All traffic being temporarily held on M62 Westbound between J23 A640 / A643 (Huddersfield) and J22 A672 (Rishworth Moor), congestion on M62 to J24 629 (Ainley Top).

Lanes one and two (of three) were closed and the traffic is being temporarily so that the vehicles involved can move off safely. There is debris on road.

The accident has happened by the farm.

We’ll bring you live updates as we get them.