M8 crash: Glasgow motorway shut after artic truck crushes into focal reservation and into vehicle
Sarah Peddie
13:19, 21 Jan 2022Updated: 14:01, 21 Jan 2022
A STRETCH of the M8 in Glasgow has been shut because of a frightfulness crash on the motorway.
It is perceived an artic truck collided with the focal reservation and crushed into a gantry.
A truck crushed through the focal reservation
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A truck crushed through the focal reservation
Crisis administrations are at the scene
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Crisis administrations are at the scene
Crisis teams hustled to the scene at around 11.50am after reports of a two-vehicle crush close to intersection 13.
Officials are at present at the scene.
Photographs from the scene show the truck jack-cut under a gantry on the motorway.
Drivers are confronting extensive deferrals and asked to accept elective courses as the westward carriageway is shut.
Cops affirm enquiries are progressing.
A Police Scotland representative said: "Around 11:50am on Friday, 21 January 2022 police were called to reports of a two vehicle crash on the M8 westward close to intersection 13.
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"Officials are at the scene and the westward carriageway is shut.
"One path of the M80 slip street stays open. Enquiries are continuous.
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"Drivers are encouraged to utilize elective courses."
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