The roadworks sign pointing in the direction of a diversion was pointing the wrong way, towards the closed road.<\/p>\n
Drivers had mistakenly gone down Castle Street, which was closed, thinking it was a diversion.<\/p>\n
But the road was closed as a crane was doing a heavy lift to a nearby building site.<\/p>\n
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Cars had entered a closed road due to a roadworks blunder.(Image: Paul Gillis \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n
At 3.30pm, a worker fixed the diversion sign and had to help the vehicles drive away from Castle Street.<\/p>\n
This, as it turned out, proved to be no simple feat.<\/p>\n
The vehicles had backed up and caused them to become stuck, before turning around and heading back towards the Old Market<\/a> roundabout.<\/p>\n Driving down the wrong way of the one-way street, the vehicles then had to wait at the roundabout, at what would have been the entrance for those driving into Broadmead.<\/p>\n The worker, who had fixed the sign, had to step on to the roundabout, one of Bristol’s busiest, and halt traffic in order to allow four vehicles to leave.<\/p>\n A witness told BristolLive: “It caused a bit of brief chaos as all the cars backed up and had to turn around, then exit via the one way street. Probably the funniest thing I have seen.”<\/p>\n It is understood that the roadworks were there for a temporary spell as One.Network lists the road as being clear of any ongoing work.<\/p>\n Click here to join our WhatsApp group<\/a>Privacy Notice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video shows several motorists stuck in a closed road 13:50, 05 May 2025Updated 13:50, 05 May 2025 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,799,748,393,4884,34156,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-77035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city-centre","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-old-market","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114456468070478915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}