Off the BBC News:
Lorry crash brings M25 chaosA jack-knifed lorry closed the anti-clockwise M25 in Buckinghamshire on Wednesday afternoon, bringing traffic to a standstill.
Police closed a five-mile stretch of the motorway between junctions 16 and 17 near Gerrard's Cross after the lorry, carrying concrete, jack-knifed across three lanes at about 1500 BST.
A Thames Valley Police spokesman said it was expected to re-open at about 2000 BST.
Officers were directing smaller stranded vehicles through on a narrow piece of the hard shoulder.
That'll be me not getting to Italy then...
It took me 62 minutes to do 62 miles, and then over 3 hours to do 2 miles. I've some piccies which I'll load up once I've got 'em off the mobile.
It was at about this point I realised something was up, as I'd never seen people walking up the fast lane of the M25 before....
