A broken down lorry was blocking one lane of the A12.
The lorry broke down on the northbound carriageway near to J20 for Hatfield Peveral at 7.35am.
It has now been moved on in to a lay by and traffic is moving past it.
An Essex Police spokesman said: “We attended a broken down lorry and engineers are now en route to the incident.”
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