Overturned lorry closes motorway

Drivers are facing long delays after a lorry crash on the M11 in Essex.

The motorway has been closed in both directions between Stansted Airport and Harlow after a goods lorry crossed the central reservation and overturned with National Highways posting about it at 14:53 BST.

Emergency services were sent to the scene near junction eight (Stansted/Bishop's Stortford) and Essex Police said the road was likely to be closed for some time.

Adam Pipe, head of roads policing, said "clearly people are going to be missing their flights" and urged people not to walk up and down the hard shoulder.

"There is trapped traffic between junction seven [Harlow Hastingwood] and eight northbound, and junction nine [A11] and eight southbound," he said.

"Diversions are in place, but it is having an impact on people trying to get to the airport.

"One plea - members of the public are leaving their vehicles and have started to walk up the hard shoulder of the motorway and we would ask [them] not to do that.

"We will get to members of the public as quickly as we can, but clearly people are going to be missing their flights at the airport."

The National Highways website has the details of the diversions.

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