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Coach fire shuts M40 during morning rush hour | Coach fire shuts M40 during morning rush hour |
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The M40 in Oxfordshire was closed for a number of hours during the morning rush hour due to a coach fire. | The M40 in Oxfordshire was closed for a number of hours during the morning rush hour due to a coach fire. |
Emergency crews were called to the blaze at about 06:00 BST on the northbound carriageway between junction 6 for Watlington and junction 7 for Thame. | |
Both carriageways have since reopened but one lane is closed northbound past the scene of the blaze. | |
There were no passengers on board the vehicle and the driver escaped unhurt. | |
Repairs to a section of lane one on the northbound carriageway, which remains closed, are expected to take place on Tuesday. | |
Oliver Jobson, who tweeted a picture of the fire, said the coach had been "completely gutted and engulfed in flames." | |
Ginge, who got stuck in the tailbacks, came to a standstill southbound, about a mile away from the fire and could "see the smoke in the distance." | |
"They had a rolling roadblock I think," he told BBC Radio Oxford. "They had a police car and I could see the blue lights in the distance." | |