1.   Stuck in a five-mile tailback on the southbound carriageway.

2.   Fifty three thousand tins spilt onto the motorway when a lorry overturned, completely blocking the southbound carriageway at its junction with the M-Fifty.

3.   This weekend the southbound carriageway will be closed and a contraflow will restrict the motorway to two lanes in each direction for three quarters of a mile.

4.   His vehicle had inexplicably veered off the southbound carriageway, across the central barrier and into the path of the coach.