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ninathenana Fri 06-Sept-13 19:16:10

Can't do a link on my phone. Just seen on news Dartford tunnel and QE bridge closed everything being sent back to Essex and told to find alternative route. Which will be Blackwall. I can imagine the chaos.

Nonu Fri 06-Sept-13 20:11:47

2 hours ago they found a man acting suspiciously !

More trouble !!

Ana Fri 06-Sept-13 20:18:41

What!??? confused

Nonu Fri 06-Sept-13 20:27:21

TRUE . !!

Nonu Fri 06-Sept-13 20:27:46

Bit scary eh!!

vampirequeen Sat 07-Sept-13 09:58:43

My friend left work at 3.30pm and got home at 1.30am.

harrigran Sat 07-Sept-13 10:25:54

Would never happen on a French motorway, I have seen dreadful accidents where the police kept the traffic moving. I know how the motorists felt, happened to us once, stuck on the M25 for five and a half hours.

ninathenana Sat 07-Sept-13 10:59:32

It wasn't an accident it was a pedestrian in the tunnel and a suspect package.

Elegran Sat 07-Sept-13 11:03:59

If they had let the traffic into the tunnel and a bomb had gone off, imagine the furore about their inefficiency. Imagine the death toll!

gracesmum Sat 07-Sept-13 13:09:39

I think being stuck in a tunnel for even minutes let alone hours would be one my worst nightmares. A propos of very little, our DDs always used to try to hold their breath in the Dartford tunnel!! And as you say, if an explosive device had gone off in the tunnel, the consequences are too awful to imagine.

merlotgran Sat 07-Sept-13 19:40:07

We're off to Portsmouth on Friday. I think I'll take the alternative route to the QE Bridge!!!

Two years ago I was stuck there for four hours when a lorry caught fire. Not funny with three DGCs in the back. sad

petra Sun 08-Sept-13 15:23:20

This is the second time this year that I have been caught in a HUGE jam at the tunnel. I am definitely going to put on of those female toilet things in the car and a pack of water.

simtib Sun 08-Sept-13 15:39:38

There was one suspect package, at Dartford there are two separate tunnels and a bridge.