The campaign group said it has targeted 5 locations on Britain’s busiest motorway, bringing traffic to a standstill. She also told ITV Meridian that she was working with her colleagues, Animal Rebellion, on this morning’s protests. This morning there were large-scale travel disruptions and a number of incidents on the M25. An Essex police officer has been hit by a vehicle while manning a rolling roadblock. Credit: Essex Police On the M25 north in Essex, police said they arrested a person for “causing a public nuisance” on the motorway while dealing with an incident. One of their officers was hit while deploying a rolling pedestrian barrier on the road between J26 and J27. On the same stretch, a truck was involved in a collision, causing further delays to passengers. Since then the police have closed the road clockwise. The traffic map of national roads. Credit: National Highways Traffic monitoring service Inrix says the road has been closed clockwise between Junction 7 for Gatwick Airport and Junction 8 for Reigate due to the protesters. Traffic has backed up at Gatwick Airport on the M23 as drivers try to use extremely busy local roads. Meanwhile, in the left-hand direction the road is closed between the 9 for Leatherhead and the 8 for Reigate. The National Highways Agency also reports that protesters have targeted the road between junction 4 and junction 5 for the M26. Currently, two lanes are closed clockwise between the two interchanges, causing traffic to build up. Protests have been reported on the M25 near Heathrow Airport, with left-hand turns blocked, delays due to protests between J14 A3113 Airport Way (Heathrow) and J13 A30 (Staines). Essex Police negotiate with a protester on the M25. Credit: Essex Police Otherwise, all traffic is temporarily blocked and queued for two miles due to further protests on the M25 clockwise before J30 for the A13 Essex Police sent a specialist officer trained to work at heights to remove the man from the bridge at Junction 30. A similar operation is now in place at junction 29, where another person has climbed onto a bridge there. Yesterday much of the M25 was brought to a standstill due to protests by Just Stop Oil, which had targeted several sections of the motorway. Efforts to break up Tuesday’s protests across the street involved the Metropolitan, Surrey, Kent and Essex police forces. They asked people stuck in traffic as a result of the protesters to stay in their vehicles and not block the hard shoulder. This is a developing story. More to come.
