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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Lana Adkin

M1 reopen hours after car transporter carrying vehicles bursts into flames

The M1 has reopened after a lorry caught fire southbound between junctions 26 and 27. Nottinghamshire Fire Service received a call at 1.39pm today, December 5, to a car transporter with seven vehicles on fire.

Crews from Ashfield, Stockhill and Hucknall were at the scene tackling the blaze, along with Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, Alfreton Fire Station and Clay Cross Fire Station's Water Carrier.

The M1 was closed both northbound and southbound, between junctions 26-27 and junctions 26-28 as firefighters tried to put out the fire.

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