Top Gear has admitted deliberately staging a traffic jam scene in the last episode of the BBC TV series.

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The flow of traffic around the scene, both foot and automobile, stopped dead.

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Queues of traffic in southbound lanes near the scene of the crashes stretched for eight miles, police said.

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Last weekend, we learned that Commerce Secretary John Bryson was involved in a traffic accident where he left the scene, proceeded to drive along further and ran into another vehicle.

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The M5 was the scene of a huge traffic jam on the northbound carriageway, near the junction with the M6, with nothing moving for 20 miles, said the BBC's Colette Hume.

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But 280, 000 people cross that bridge every weekday, and traffic is going to be detoured around the scene of the collapse for months.

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As calls come in, traffic-control navigators alert the first five responders closest to the scene.

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Traffic on part of the toll road was halted as responders tended to the scene.

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"We were on the scene fairly quickly and when we got there, we discovered it was a one-vehicle road traffic collision, " he said.

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