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Nine car pile up on Blackwall Tunnel approach in Greenwich

9:42am Sunday 1st January 2012 in News By Kelly Smale

Nine car pile up on Blackwall Tunnel approach Nine car pile up on Blackwall Tunnel approach

TWENTY firefighters attended a nine car pile up at midnight.

The London Fire Brigade was called at 12.02am to reports of a road traffic collision on the A102 Blackwall Tunnel approach.

Crews from East Greenwich, Greenwich and Woolwich attended the scene.

No one was injured but debris covered the road.

Firefighters left the scene at around 1am.

Comments(10)

WhatWhenWhyHow says...
11:57am Sun 1 Jan 12

I'm not suprised. The new road lay out is dangerous! It's gone from outside lane filtering in to the middle lane to the inside lane filtering in to the middle lane.

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wheels439 says...
6:12pm Sun 1 Jan 12

Whoever thought of this layout must had been drunk at the time. It is sheer madness. What is the purpose is there to it? You go from the outside lane into the middle lane to go through the tunnel and most of the time you have to force your way into the middle lane because no one wants to give way to you. Lucky this time no one was killed.

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JonCa says...
8:08am Mon 2 Jan 12

Must be safer, Ken and Boris both say so !!!

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madras says...
12:16pm Mon 2 Jan 12

While the layout may be far from ideal, there's also some pi55 poor driving in both directions on the elevated stretch. Though north bound, funnelling from 3 lanes into 2 while people also slow down for the tunnel is something of a recipe for disaster

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fire999 says...
10:13am Tue 3 Jan 12

The accident was northbound just after the sun in sands roundabout. Not the Blackwall tunnel

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ianc9139 says...
11:58am Tue 3 Jan 12

Sooner they build another crossing the better!!

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Joe G 6th says...
12:21pm Tue 3 Jan 12

Hallelujah to that ianc9139. Long long over due.

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hayeslane says...
2:53pm Tue 3 Jan 12

Sun in sands is hardly near Blackwall tunnel. Did the Newshopper get it wrong

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jay149 says...
2:51pm Wed 4 Jan 12

i think the new layout is better it reduces delays. The layout is created to stop overheight vehicles trying to enter the tunnel by using the lights and barrier on just the inside lane where as the old layout meant stopping all traffic. Initially i was concerned but i travel through there several time a day and have never had problems merging lanes and no reported accidents yet

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joncook says...
8:53am Wed 11 Jan 12

The new layout serves no purpose whatsoever! It does not help stop over height vehicles at all, it filters traffic out of the lane and then back into it. It makes no sense at all! I bet any money that come the Olympics this new lane is used to filter the "VIP" cars into the tunnel and that is the real reason its been put in place.

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