'Boy racers' have been blamed by police for causing traffic to be stopped on the M1. Just after 10pm on Sunday (August 7) night, Highways England Tweeted to say that traffic was held at J28 on the northbound carriageway near Alfreton.
This was because of a multi-vehicle collision. There was almost two miles of slow moving traffic on the approach.
An update was posted just after 10.30pm to say the vehicles were recovered to the slip road, when traffic was released and the slip road was down to one lane of two but has since been fully reopened. And Derbyshire Roads Policing Unit posted on Twitter that the incident was because of 'boy racers'.
