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Live A12 updates as A120 slip road closed due to overturned lorry on roundabout

There is very slow traffic in the area

• Updated 17:38, 11 MAY 2021

Traffic on the A12 is slow this morning due to an overturned lorry blocking an exit slip road.

The northbound exit slip road on the A12 at J25 for Marks Tey has been closed where the lorry is lying across the road on the roundabout.

Access to the A120 westbound from the roundabout is now open.

Queues are building with delays for commuters heading into work this morning.

Emergency services are believed to be at the scene.

It is not known how long the slip road may be blocked for.

Follow our live blog below for updates on the A12.

• Road fully open 11:30
• Ambulance, fire and police at the scene 09:43
• A120 eastbound now closed 09:40
• 45 minute delays 09:16
• Photos show overturned lorry which shut A12 near Colchester 08:44

Road fully open

The road is now fully open after an overturned lorry on the roundabout has been recovered.

All restrictions have now been lifted. Traffic is flowing well, it has been reported.

Delays ongoing

There is approximately 4 miles of congestion on the A12 northbound carriageway due to this ongoing incident.

According to Highways England, normal traffic conditions are expected between 11am and 11.15am.

Lorry 'rightened' but sliproad closure remains

The lorry has been 'righted' and recovery is ongoing.

But the northbound exit slip road of the A12 at Junction 25, Marks Tey, remains closed along with a lane closure on the main carriageway, according to Highways England.

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Long delays

There remain long delays this morning on the A12 and A120.

The A120 Eastbound is blocked from Ashbury Drive to A12 J25 Marks Tey where a lorry is overturned.

Congestion is heading back to Coggeshall as well as delays on the A12 northbound back to J23 (Kelvedon South).

The road remains closed and there is long queuing traffic.

Ambulance, fire and police at the scene

All three emergency services remain at the scene of the A12 where a lorry overturned by the roundabout.

The exit slip road has been closed for some time and the A120 was closed for around 90 minutes.

It is not known how long the slip road will continue to be closed for but traffic remains very heavy.

A spokesperson for Essex Police said: "We were called at around 5am today (Tuesday, 11 May) following a report of an overturned lorry at the junction of A12 and A120, Marks Tey. "Ambulance and fire brigade are also in attendance. "Recovery vehicles have been called to assist. The A120 westbound was closed for around 90 minutes. "We are still on scene."

A120 eastbound now closed

The A120 is now closed between the A131 and the A12 due to the overturned lorry.

The incident at Marks Tey on the A12 at J25 continues to cause issues this morning.

There are long queues on the A12 Londonbound and now the A120 too.

Drivers are being advised to avoid the area.

#Essex #A120 eastbound now closed between #A131 #Braintree and #A12 #MarksTey due to this ongoing incident at #A12 J25 roundabout. Further information regarding diversion route and congestion can be found here: https://t.co/LtUVhU0cLo pic.twitter.com/T5Rdi7VZi2 — Highways England (@HighwaysEAST) May 11, 2021

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45 minute delays

There are now 45 minute delays on the A12 this morning following an overturned lorry.

Queues on the A12 northbound on the approach to J25 are around 5.5 miles long.

Highways England are warning there are an extra 45 minutes expected to delay time.

They are advising drivers to expect disruption and allow extra journey time.

Large diesel spill confirmed

A large diesel spill has been confirmed on the A12 following an overturned lorry.

Essex Police and Highways England are already at the scene and have blocked the exit slip from use.

Highways England confirmed they will need to carry out an assessment on the diesel spill.

There remain over five miles of queues on the A12 northbound on the approach to J25.

They also issued the following advice:

"Road users wishing to continue their journey eastbound are advised to exit the A120 on to the A131. Continue northbound on the A131 to Halstead. "At the roundabout with the A1124, take the 2nd exit on to the A1124 towards Eight Ash Green and A12 J26. Here, road users can continue their journey on the A12 or take the B1408 westbound to rejoin the A12 at J25."

Photos show overturned lorry which shut A12 near Colchester

Long queues are building on the A12 this morning where a lorry has overturned on the roundabout.

Pictures of the HGV show it completely on its side with a smashed front window screen.

The incident happened on the A12 Northbound exit for Marks Tey at J25 which has now been closed off by emergency services.

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Five miles of queues

There are over five miles of queues on the A12 following an overturned lorry.

Traffic appears to have ground to a halt on the A12 London Road Northbound at J25 for the A120 at Marks Tey.

Congestion is heading back past J24 for Kelvedon North and is also affecting the A120.

The exit slip road remains closed and the junction roundabout is also partially blocked.

All traffic being held on approach to slip road

Queues are heading all the way back to Kelveden North now.

The A12 northbound exit slip road has been closed due to an overturned lorry on the roundabout.

The incident has happened at J25 for Marks Tey.

All traffic is being held on the approach to the slip road leaving queues heading back to J24 for Kelvedon north.

UPDATE - A12 at J25 (Marks Tey) – northbound exit slip road CLOSED because of an overturned lorry on the roundabout. All traffic being held at present on the approach to the slip road – queues back to J24 (Kelvedon north). — Essex Travel News (@Essex_Travel) May 11, 2021

Junction roundabout partially blocked

The exit slip road heading towards the A12 roundabout for J25 is closed off for the overturned lorry.

The junction roundabout is also partially blocked while recovery and clean up is arranged by emergency services.

What exactly happened in this incident is yet to be confirmed.

Where has the incident happened?

The incident has happened on the A12 London Road Northbound at J25 for the A120 Marks Tey.

The overturned lorry is on the roundabout and the exit slip road has been closed.

This is causing slow traffic in the area.

Overturned lorry on the roundabout

The Northbound exit slip road has been closed for the A12 at junction 25 for Marks Tey.

An overturned lorry on the roundabout is blocking the road, where police and ambulance services are now at the scene.

Northbound traffic is coping well however southbound is very slow past the scene.

ONGOING - A12 at J25 (Marks Tey) – northbound exit slip road CLOSED because of an overturned lorry on the roundabout. Northbound traffic coping well - southbound slow past the scene. pic.twitter.com/QRp4EjyxMn — Essex Travel News (@Essex_Travel) May 11, 2021

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Business | Former Google workers fired for protesting Israel deal file complaint claiming protected speech

New York — Dozens of former Google workers filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday after they were fired or placed on administrative leave last month for protesting the company’s cloud-computing contract with Israel’s government.

The complaint accuses Google of retaliating against the workers for their “protected concerted activity, namely, participation (or perceived participation) in a peaceful, non-disruptive protest that was directly and explicitly connected to their terms and conditions of work.”

The workers are seeking reinstatement of their jobs and back pay, according to No Tech for Apartheid, a group made up in part by Google and Amazon workers that organized last month’s protest.

A Google spokesperson said in a statement that the protests were “a very clear case of employees disrupting and occupying work spaces, and making other employees feel threatened and unsafe.”

“By any standard, their behavior was completely unacceptable – and widely seen as such,” the spokesperson said. “We carefully confirmed and reconfirmed that every single person whose employment was terminated was directly and definitively involved in disruption inside our buildings. We are confident in our position and stand by the actions we’ve taken.”

Last month’s protests involved employee sit-ins inside Google’s offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California. In Sunnyvale, employees entered the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, according to No Tech for Apartheid.

No Tech for Apartheid said last week that 50 Google employees were terminated in connection with the protests. The group claimed that some of the workers fired were “non-participating bystanders” and not actively involved in the workplace activism.

A Google spokesperson told CNN last month that the company had investigated the “physical disruption inside our buildings on April 16.”

“Our investigation into these events is now concluded, and we have terminated the employment of additional employees who were found to have been directly involved in disruptive activity,” the Google spokesperson said at the time.

But affected workers say they should not have been fired for protesting the company’s actions.

“We must resist Google’s repression of worker organizing, and demand that Google be held responsible for their retaliatory actions against employees asking for ethical applications of their labor,” Zelda Montes, a former Google software engineer who was fired for participating in the protest, said in a statement.

“Employees, including Google employees, have the right to protest working conditions through concerted activity, and a protest concerning the kind of work that employees are asked to do can be protected,” said Benjamin Sachs, Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School. “Even a sit-in in certain circumstances can be protected activity… Now, that’s not always true, it depends on the facts, and it depends on things like how disruptive the protest is, whether employer property is seized [and] the duration of the work stoppage.”

The protests from Google workers over the company’s cloud-computing deal with Israel’s government come more than six months since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants left some 1,200 dead in Israel, and as Israel’s counteroffensive attacks in Gaza have now killed more than 34,183 people in Gaza, according to tallies from the Palestinian health ministry. More than 70% of those killed in Gaza have been women and children, according to the ministry.

The ongoing civilian carnage in Gaza has deeply divided the American public, and protests over US government and business support for Israel have erupted on college campuses and across corporate America in recent weeks.

In the wake of the protests at Google, CEO Sundar Pichai sent a company-wide memo urging staffers to keep “politics” out of the workplace. Pichai told workers that “this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers.” Pichai went on to urge Googlers to not “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics” in the workplace.

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Welcome to Asian American Bustle, The Dallas Morning News’ community-based reporting effort examining the development, culture and future of Asian American communities in North Texas.

Over a few months, two reporters, two photographers and an editor spent several days in communities’ gathering spaces to meet the public and hear their stories.

Using “pop-up newsrooms,” we reported from three different areas that serve as hubs for Asian American identity and culture in North Texas. The result is more than a half-dozen stories, scheduled to run through May, which is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Our first article will go live this week, with two stories set to publish each week thereafter.

The News’ staffers worked out of the library at the Dallas Chinese Community Center in Richardson’s Chinatown, a staple in one of the area’s oldest enclaves for those of East Asian descent; Deccan Grill in Irving, where we learned about businesses and temples established by the South Asian community along State Highway 183; and Asia Times Square in Grand Prairie, an anchor of the Southeast Asian community in eastern Tarrant County.

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More than 60 people visited our pop-ups, facilitated by local leaders and business owners. Some of these North Texans invited us into their community centers for celebrations and into their homes to break fast with them at Iftar during Ramadan. They opened the doors of the sacred kitchens of their family restaurants and opened the pages of photo books filled with their cherished memories.

In total, we’ve completed more than 40 hours of interviews with Asian Americans in North Texas spanning multiple generations, nationalities, ethnicities and cultures.

As part of our project, we produced a map of the areas we refer to as “Asian American enclaves,” or places essential to the identities of many in North Texas. Rather than using the term to describe where certain Asian American populations live, our definition includes areas that were formative to the identities of many Asian Americans in North Texas.

Some areas, such as Dallas Koreatown and Richardson’s Chinatown, were easy to identify. Officials in both of those cities worked with community leaders with close ties to those enclaves to define their boundaries. In other cases, such as Irving’s South Asian community, local advocates, religious leaders and longtime residents identified areas near State Highway 183 as key cultural and commercial centers.

The map will not have specific boundaries for these enclaves. We found these boundaries aren’t always static.

Carrollton’s Koreatown, for example, is anchored by H Mart on Old Denton Road. But large concentrations of Korean-owned businesses are popping up as far north as Frankford Road. We’re also seeing newer developments like Zion Market in Lewisville and an H Mart in Haltom City .

In places like Plano and Frisco, we found more than a few retail centers have high concentrations of Asian-owned businesses. However, we could not identify a specific geographic area that served as a main focal point. Collin County notably saw the largest increase in Asian Americans, primarily led by people of Indian descent, according to U.S Census Bureau data.

Our always-helpful research team added perspective to these issues and dynamics by poring through decades of Asian American-related coverage touching on culture, food, policing and religion. We learned about the history of longtime businesses and the current trends of these populations, from where Asian Americans in North Texas live and worship to where their children go to school.

By analyzing Texas Education data for the last five years, we found seven North Texas public school districts in which at least 20% of its student body are Asian: Coppell ISD, Frisco ISD, Allen ISD, Plano ISD, Sunnyvale ISD, Carroll ISD and Prosper ISD.

Of those seven, Coppell ranks No. 1 at around 55% of its student body being Asian in the 2022-23 school year. Frisco and Prosper saw the most dramatic gains in the last five years with a nearly 11% jump in their shares.

Several charter schools in the region are also represented when looking at the share of their student body: Universal Academy (55.1%), Imagine International Academy (47%), Lone Star Language Academy (44.8%), Richland Collegiate High School (33.5%) and Manara Academy (30.8%).

We are interested in highlighting more communities, including North Texas’ Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian populations. If you have a suggestion to help us improve and add to our map, please reach out to Tyler Davis, the editor of the project, at [email protected].

We also created a population map from five-year Census data spanning 2017 to 2022. While the data and the maps created by data reporter José Luis Adriano are not intended to represent an exhaustive analysis, they offer a valuable look at which parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities call home.

Not only did this project help produce stories about these communities and countless more story ideas we’ll pursue well after Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. It created new connections between the newsroom and the community — an effort we plan to spread to other groups of North Texans.

Hojun Choi , Breaking News reporter . Hojun Choi covers breaking news. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the Dallas Morning News, he was a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman.

José Luis Adriano , Data Reporter . José Luis is a reporter on the data team. He graduated with a MA in Data Journalism at the University of Missouri as a Fulbright grantee. José was born in Mexico City, where he worked as a technology reporter in different outlets.

Zaeem Shaikh , Staff, Reporter . Zaeem Shaikh is a reporter covering breaking news for The Dallas Morning News. He grew up in Fresno, California, and graduated from Fresno State University in 2022. Before joining The News, he has reported for The Sacramento Bee, CalMatters and the Oregonian.

Tyler J. Davis , Night breaking news editor . Chicagoland native Tyler Davis has worked, at times, on sports, public safety and courts coverage in Charlotte, Des Moines and Detroit. Now, he helps the Morning News handle breaking news stories and enterprise.

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3 killed, 5 injured in Sunnyvale Hwy 101 chain-reaction crashes, CHP says

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (KGO) -- Three people were killed and at least five others were injured on northbound 101 in Sunnyvale after a series of crashes overnight, the California Highway Patrol said.

San Jose CHP said there was first a single-vehicle crash involving a pickup truck that lost control around 12:30 a.m. Monday just south of Fair Oaks Avenue.

This then caused a chain reaction of additional crashes.

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"Involved in the collision on the northbound side, we have at least six vehicles," San Jose CHP officer Ross Lee said. "An additional vehicle on the southbound side."

Officer Lee said drivers and passengers of those cars got out of their vehicles, standing somewhere on or near the roadway.

The three who were killed were all men. Two of the victims were sent over the center divider by subsequent crashes, landing on the southbound side, according to Lee.

"They stopped within the lanes, got out of their vehicles to assess damage and check on the other drivers, to make sure that everyone was okay," Lee said.

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CHP believes the two were then killed by a car traveling southbound.

For much of the morning, crews were working to clear the scene.

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The CHP is considering all three victims killed as pedestrians since they got out of their cars and has identified them as adult men.

Five other people were taken to the hospital.

There were at least six cars involved on northbound side, and one car involved on the southbound side, which CHP is treating as a separate incident.

CHP said it is still trying to determine the sequence of events that led to the deaths of three people and the overnight pile-up.

The CHP says that there is no indication that alcohol was involved.

Northbound and southbound lanes of Highway 101 have reopened after being closed for over eight hours since the incidents.

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