Mystery Over A483 / A55 Posthouse Roundabout Road Chaos

Road users were delayed by up to an hour this rush hour and evening after a mystery incident affected traffic on the A55 and A483, with a 4 vehicle incident later.

UPDATE: Roads appear clear again…

UPDATE: The A55 westbound has been closed following an accident involving four vehicles. The incident took place between J39 A41 (Sainsbury’s / Boughton Heath Roundabout) and J38 A483 Wrexham Road (Posthouse roundabout)

Picture of a car on fire on A55 by the A51 turn off via @Caz_SD – four cars apparently involved in incident. Avoid. pic.twitter.com/nPuY9JQJSE

— TheCestrian (@TheCestrian) August 26, 2015

Katie sent us these pictures from the A55 incident.By our maths this happened around 1hr after bypass queues started? pic.twitter.com/1LvZEv6YS8

— Wrexham.com (@wrexham) August 26, 2015

The above incident appears unconnected to whatever has caused the traffic delayed, occurring around an hour earlier, on the same area of the road network.

Queues are currently reaching north from Rossett as pictured above, with the A55 to the east of Chester affected.

Those following Wrexham.com or our twitter would have seen the following updates:

Large queues northbound to Chester on the A483 just after the England / Wales border.

— Wrexham.com (@wrexham) August 26, 2015

Screengrab of slow traffic on the A483 / around Chester. Advice for anyone travelling that way, avoid if you can! pic.twitter.com/aOkM2EXjoD

— Wrexham.com (@wrexham) August 26, 2015

Radio traffic reports were of little use as the official notifications systems were not showing any incidents or slow traffic, so the road network was being described as ‘clear’.

There are currently unconfirmed reports as to what the cause of the traffic is, with some saying it’s the volume of cars on the road while someone else has said there is a broken down vehicle in the road.

Avoid A483,Posthouse Rbout at all costs, traffic backed up from Rossett junction all the way to PH roundabout, no obvious reason. @wrexham

— Sian Hughes (@siany) August 26, 2015

#ChesterToWrexhamProblems #traffic @wrexham

— Dan Roach (@danroach_) August 26, 2015

Traffic backed up on A483 wxm to Chester up to Llay bridge almost!! @wrexham

— Louise Mullock (@loumullock) August 26, 2015

@wrexham traffic bad coming out of Chester by Chester business park, goes on towards the roundabout.

— Nina (@nroberts97) August 26, 2015