Police urged drivers to avoid the M20 and A20 because of severe congestion between the Roundhill Tunnel at Folkestone and the Eastern Docks.

BBC: Ferry traffic into Dover comes to standstill

He powered along a newly built stretch of the A20, wherever possible nipping off and taking byroads through the villages, feeling that the air was purer there.

NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior

The backlog prompted the closure of the M20 between the Maidstone and Ashford turn-offs to allow for the complex operation to shift non-freight traffic off the motorway and onto the A20 to make room for the hundreds of lorries waiting to board ferries and trains for France.

BBC: M20 in Kent still disrupted by cross-channel backlog