Two major roads near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire have been blocked following collisions this afternoon (Wednesday, July 17).

Traffic monitoring service Inrix is reporting that the A5117 is partially blocked in both ways between the junction with the M56 and the A41 Liverpool Road roundabout, due to an accident on Dunkirk Lane, Dunkirk.

The A540 Chester High Road is also partially blocked westbound near Gordale Garden Centre, with slow traffic being reported from Badgers Rake Lane to the B5151 Hadlow Road.

Slow traffic is also being reported on that stretch of road, with heavy traffic also being reported on the northbound stretch of the A550 Welsh Road, on the approach to the Two Mills junction.

Motorists are advised to plan their journeys.