Motorway reopens following severe delays

Three highway maintenance workers wearing hi-vis orange trousers, yellow hi-vis jackets and white hard hats. They are using tools to flatten a steaming pile of fresh tarmac, which is being poured into a fault in the road by a digger. National Highways

Two lanes on the bridge were closed after a faulty bridge join was discovered

Bea Swallow
BBC News, Bristol

A motorway bridge has reopened after emergency repairs left drivers queuing in traffic for more than two hours.

Two lanes of the M5 northbound were closed on Sunday after a faulty bridge join was discovered on the Avonmouth Bridge, near junction 18, at about 07:00 BST.

National Highways said the repairs took longer to cure in the warm weather, with queues stretching 14 miles (22km) back to junction 21 for Weston-super-Mare.

All lanes reopened at about 22:00 on Sunday and traffic monitoring site Inrix reports traffic is now moving freely.

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