Drivers have been advised to avoid the Dartford Tunnel this morning (June 18).

Dartford Tunnel traffic is queueing back eight miles anti-clockwise, all the way to Orpington.

 

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The queues follow a crash between two lorries at Tilbury in Essex at around 4.45am.

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A spokesman for Highways England said: "Queues are almost back to J27 M11, also down the A12 into London, and both ways along the A13.

"Diversion: Via the slip road off, around the roundabout and back on again."