DRIVERS were facing severe delays after a crash on a Hampshire motorway.

One lane of the M3 northbound was blocked between junction 14 and 13 north of Southampton following an earlier collision.

The vehicles have now been cleared but as a result traffic was building on the M27 as far west as the New Forest and as far east as junction nine for Whiteley.

There were also delays on the M271 northbound.

As reported by the Daily Echo there was traffic chaos on the M27 yesterday after a truck overturned near Portsmouth and shut the road for a number of hours.

UPDATE 10:30pm: Traffic has now returned to normal in the area.