A man and woman trapped following a seven-vehicle crash on the M25 were rescued by firefighters on Easter Sunday morning.
Three crews from Brentwood and Loughton were called to the incident, between junctions 28 and 27, at 10.49am.About 20 minutes later, they had rescued a woman and passed her on to ambulance crews and by 11.40am they had rescued the man.
As of Sunday 31 March at 1pm, three lanes were closed and traffic queues stretched back for six miles. There were long delays anticlockwise between junction 28 - which joins the Brook Street Roundabout, and junction 27 of the M11.
The accident followed a crash between a fuel tanker and a car on the same stretch from only moments before.