There was yet another accident on the M3 smart motorway on Tuesday morning.

Surrey Police were called to an incident between junctions 3 and 4 of the motorway, between Bagshot and Camberley, after reports of a collision between a car and a van.

The accident happened at around 6.55am, causing one lane of the southbound carriageway to be shut.

Police then had to halt all traffic on the carriageway so they could move the vehicles to the hard shoulder, but the incident was cleared by 7.11am. There were no reported injuries.

The M3 has been heavily criticised over the years, and more recently when a broken-down car was hit by another vehicle last Friday (November 24).

The car ended up lying on its roof and with its boot heavily damaged.

Members of the public said the new smart motorway, which has removed the hard shoulder from a stretch of the road, meant the driver of the broken-down car was unable to pull over out of the way of other vehicles.

Donna Wishart, from Camberley , said: "I can only think it was due to the lack of hard shoulder - it wouldn't have been hit if it had been safely out of the flow of traffic."

Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured in the crash.


