Mystery shrouds Mercedes crash
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The cause of an accident in which a Mercedes-Benz car transporter closed three lanes of the M25 for seven hours last Monday (12 June) may remain a mystery.
Police classified the accident as a noninjury incident and will not conduct a detailed investigation into why the Actros drawbar flipped onto its side and sent its load of nine
Mercedes-Benz cars sprawling.
The wreckage of the drawbar and its load stretched from one hard shoulder, across all three lanes of the anticlockwise carriageway, into the central reservation crash barrier and onto the fast lane on the other sidebetween Junctions 29 and 30 in Essex.
The transporter is owned by Carlisle-based ECM which only began to deliver Gars for Mercedes-Benz a week ago. It won the deal to deliver 65,000 new vehicles a year with Silver Arrow, taking the contract from Richard Lawson which held it for 20 years.
Mercedes-Benz will not speculate on the causes of the accident, but estimates the cost of the rig at £80,000 with the cars worth up to £40,000 each.