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Originally Posted by M1TCH
After sitting in loads of traffic on the M11 & M25 but never been at the front of the cue, what happens when you get to the accident at the front of all the traffic, do the police let the bikes through or do you have to sit and wait like us in cars?
I was sat in the traffic on thursday just before Stansted, was well annoying because we come off there for the A120 but people were going down the slip road to try get further up, resulting in a full slip road. gheys.
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Basically its great. The police clear the road, all the bikes go hammering off down the motorway which is effectively empty until at least the next junction as no traffics gone down the road for a fair while. Just like a track day
Its happened to me couple times, always on the M1 for some reason. Remember filtering and getting strange looks from people wandering about like they cant quite comprehend because theyre stuck not everyone else on the motorway is. Tbh, when traffics stationary thats usually the most dangerous time for filtering as doors opening, people wandering about are suddenly real hazzards.
Anyhows, got to the front and parked up with other bikers. This was serious enough to warrant air ambulance on the motorway, so was lid off and chatting away job for about half hour. Then a panicking policeman saying we'd have to move the bikes back cos the downdraft from the helicopter would blow them over where they were. So a move backwards, lid on, then open motorway for 10 min.