{"id":3134,"date":"2010-09-09T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2010-09-09T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T07:26:10","slug":"drivers-warned-expect-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/09\/drivers-warned-expect-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Warned: Expect Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/traffic-delays-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"traffic-delays\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3193\" \/>Drivers are warned to expect hours of traffic misery as the new school year begins. Hours of endless traffic jams are expected to make today\u2019s roads the busiest of the year. Information gathered by the road information service at Tom Tom revealed that holds ups are set to continue until the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A report done by the Daily Mail says that on last year\u2019s back to school Monday, there were 1,087 miles of delays across the country between 6am and 9am.<\/p>\n<p>This is in comparison with the average 385 miles of congestion on the average Monday morning. The Daily Mirror report also says that last year there was 297 more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/road_traffic_accidents.php\">road traffic accidents<\/a> reported than on the average Monday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman from Tom Tom told the paper, \u201cThe traffic tomorrow is likely to be twice as bad as it would be on a normal Monday, and in the morning it will be nearly three times as bad when there could be long delays on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With warnings like this it is important that drivers take extra care when on the roads. Here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/\">The Injury Lawyers<\/a> we would recommend that you give an extra half hour for your journey.<\/p>\n<p>Often when people are late they rush around, which means they aren\u2019t concentrating as much as they normally would. This makes it more likely for road accidents to occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers are warned to expect hours of traffic misery as the new school year begins. Hours of endless traffic jams are expected to make today\u2019s roads the busiest of the year. Information gathered by the road information service at Tom Tom revealed that holds ups are set to continue until the afternoon. A report done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/09\/drivers-warned-expect-delays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drivers Warned: Expect Delays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drivers Warned: Expect Delays - The UK&#039;s No 1 Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/09\/drivers-warned-expect-delays\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drivers Warned: Expect Delays - The UK&#039;s No 1 Injury Lawyers Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Drivers are warned to expect hours of traffic misery as the new school year begins. 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