National Highways has revealed the reason for the closed lanes causing big delays around Shrewsbury.
between the Emstrey and Preston roundabouts immediately to the east of Shrewsbury on Thursday morning and again in the afternoon.
Closed lanes at the Emstrey island have been blamed for the severe delays, up to 37 minutes at times, which have also snaked back to the westbound A5 from Telford. National Highways said the lanes were closed for repairs to signal poles at a crossing after a crash at the roundabout early on Thursday.also causing long delaysNational Highways said in a statement Thursday:"A road traffic collision occurred in the early hours of this morning on the Emstrey island on the westbound approach. In the incident, two traffic signal poles on a pedestrian crossing were damaged forcing us, for safety reasons, to close a number of lanes.
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