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Motorway reopens after vehicle fire

News imageNational Highways A traffic camera image above the M11 motorway. It is night time and the vehicles on both sides of the carriageway have their lights on. The carriageway closest to the camera has long queues of traffic. National Highways
Traffic was previously held on the M11 northbound carriageway due to a vehicle fire

The M11 has fully reopened after a vehicle fire, National Highways said.

The incident happened on the northbound carriageway between junction 7a and junction eight, near Stansted Airport and close to the Hertfordshire-Essex border, at about 18:20 GMT.

Traffic was held while Essex Fire Service worked to extinguish the blaze, before lanes were gradually reopened.

The fire was put out at about 18:30 before the road fully reopened at about 19:35.

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