Traffic Trauma on the M40

I was unlucky enough to be caught in two sets of traffic jams last week. Both were on the M40 on the exact same spot between the southbound Gaydon and Banbury junctions. The first time round, it was due to an overturned ambulance that had somehow skidded off the hard shoulder and had overturned in the verge. This wasn’t much of a jam, but many people were slowing down to look at it which obviously slowed traffic down during rush hour. I had a delivery back up near Leamington; and as I headed back northbound, I saw that traffic had been cleared and that normal service had resumed. So the natural route was to return to the motorway for my final delivery back in Banbury. And this time the trouble really did hit. He had ambulances, fire engines and police all tearing down the hard shoulder to attend to the scene of a car rear-ending a lorry; while everyone was frantically trying to tune into their radios to find out what was happening. Then came the scrum; as everyone was trying to get into the right-hand lane so that we could all get pass. A whole hour lost. And we still don't know much about it; apparently accidents are so common on the motorways that it really is hard to find out any information about one specific incident.