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M1 stretch closed due to lorry fire

News imageNational Highways A traffic camera image of vehicle congestion on a motorway. Smoke can be seen billowing from a lorry at the top of the image with fire engines and crews parked near to it. Traffic is moving on the opposite carriageway.National Highways
The M1 was closed on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border due to a lorry fire

A busy motorway was partly closed due to a lorry fire.

Traffic was being held on the M1 southbound carriageway between junction 13, near Milton Keynes, and junction 12, near Toddington in Bedfordshire at 18:00 BST.

Emergency services were at the scene working as National Highways put a diversion route in place during the closure.

One lane later reopened as crews continued to work on recovering the lorry at about 21:00.

News imageNational Highways A different view of the lorry fire with traffic building on the opposite carriageway.National Highways
There were delays on both carriageways due to the fire

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