Motorists stuck in queues for hours on the M60 on Sunday (June 22) have slammed 'idiot' drivers blocking emergency crews from using the hard shoulder and getting out of their vehicles.

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.

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The latest from Inrix Queueing traffic due to accident, now on the hard shoulder on M4 Westbound at J20 M5 J15 (Almondsbury Interchange). Congestion to J19 (M32 / Bristol).

He told Transport Secretary Ken Skates that creating hard shoulders along large parts of its length and planning for contraflows to be enabled would alleviate congestion.

The ‘emergency assistant’ even takes over if the driver doesn’t react, piloting the Q3 to the hard shoulder to a complete stop.

Lastly, it found that the hard shoulder is a dangerous place to be, as any drivers or passengers in the cars on the mock-up hard shoulder would most likely have lost their lives.

Further evidence of this ominous atmosphere comes on The Hard Shoulder (Newstalk, weekdays) when its host, Kieran Cuddihy, talks to the reporter Josh Crosbie about the “eerie, tense feeling ...

Motorists stuck in queues for hours on the M60 on Sunday (June 22) have slammed 'idiot' drivers blocking emergency crews from using the hard shoulder and getting out of their vehicles.

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The man, who is in his 60s, was arrested at the same time gardai sealed off a house in south west Dublin - but officers stressed the current residents were not in anyway connected to the case.