Tanker fire triggers motorway emergency plan review.

The article reports on the plan of highway agency officials to review emergency access to the motorway network an accident on the M25 in London, England in August 2006 trapped thousands of people for more than eight hours. Traffic jams stretched for 29km after an intense petrol tanker fire closed the London orbital road in both directions. Stranded motorists could not be diverted off the road because there are no emergency crossover points in the central reservation on that stretch of the road. The Agency said that it was now reviewing its emergency access arrangement across the network.