TAILBACKS lasting 13 miles are still causing problems on the Enfield section of the M25 after a lorry fire this morning.
Two lanes have been closed on the motorway after the blaze, which started at 7.20am.
The Highways Agency has closed two lanes anticlockwise between Junctions 25, Enfield and 28, Brentwood.
The organisation is advising driver journeys could take as much as two hours longer than expected.
Driver Angus Hobbs, 38, from Welwyn Garden City, who used the M25 to travel from the M11 to Forty Hill, found traffic was solid from Junction 27 to junction 26.
It took him more than an hour to travel three miles.
He said: "It was terrible, it took more than two hours to make the journey and most of that was on the M25, we were going around five miles an hour, and that was when we weren't at a standstill."
The problem was exacerbated by ongoing roadworks on the motorway.
Surrounding roads have been hit by the effects of the closure.
The Westbound carriageway of the North Circular near Angel Road is also severely congested.
Nobody was hurt as a result of the fire.
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