Resolved Crash closes A12 towards The Hague for hours
A crash at the Lunetten junction closed the A12 towards The Hague for hours in the morning. Rijkswaterstaat says the three longest traffic jams in the country were around Utrecht.
An accident around 06:30 at the Lunetten junction near Utrecht closed the A12 towards The Hague for hours. At the peak, drivers faced delays of about 100 minutes there, said Rijkswaterstaat, the national roads agency.
The queue at the junction has now almost entirely cleared.
Rijkswaterstaat said there were traffic jams across the country, but that the Utrecht area was gridlocked (a verkeersinfarct). Around 08:30 it wrote on X: "The three longest traffic jams are around the Domstad," a nickname for Utrecht.
Accidents left several traffic jams around Utrecht throughout the morning. They caused heavy delays on the A12,, the A27 and the A28..
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Rijkswaterstaat is the Dutch national agency for water and infrastructure, part of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. It builds, maintains and manages the national motorway network, the main waterways, locks, bridges and tunnels, and the national water system including flood defences. When a traffic incident closes or disrupts a national motorway, Rijkswaterstaat is the body that manages the road and reports on the situation.