Shoppers had to wait hours in queues of traffic yesterday amid "utter chaos" by a retail park.
A "complete deadlock" stopped cars from budging at a the JunctionOne Retail Park in Bidston Moss, Wallasey yesterday, with some shoppers reporting spending up to "three hours" in traffic as they tried to get home. Witnesses reported seeing queues of traffic backed up to the slip road leading onto the M53 motorway, which runs past the retail park, with a nearby roundabout also "clogged."
Witnesses reported seeing one lane closed on the nearby A554. Some believed it was roadworks, however Merseyside Police confirmed this afternoon they assisted in the removal of a broken-down vehicle in the area of the Bidston Link Road yesterday, after initially receiving reports of roadworks causing queues at around 11.30am.