We went up the Cannock Road on our walk from Wildwood tonight and the traffic was crawling and tailed right back.
Turns out what was causing it was a couple of cars heading out of town had stopped close to the turning off to Acton Trussell. The car behind had his hazards on, the car directly in front had his left hand indicator on and parked slightly out , so traffic was having to wait for a gap to overtake. Both blokes were outside the cars at first but got into the 2nd car as we approached.Couldn't see any sign of a collision so maybe one was broken down? Just after we had passed them there was another bloke , who had parked up in Oldcroft Road ,running towards them........ Must have been there quite some time for it to build up so much.
We were just glad to not find a nasty accident. ((But curious what was going on)
This was before 5pm when we first saw the traffic queuing at Wildwood, so looks like they were there for some time after we walked past as well.