Incident seems to be contained to one platformpublished at 22:23 BST
22:23 BST
Evan Davis
Radio 4 PM Presenter
Around the time of the incident, I happened to be coming through the tunnel from Folkestone to Calais.
I got an alert from Eurotunnel while we were on the train saying: “Service disruption due to an ongoing incident.” We were directed off the train as normal and ushered off via the normal route.
I came through and there were some very clear blue lights concentrated on one of the platforms – presumably a freight platform – in this enormous terminal.
As I understand, this is how the service for lorry drivers works: lorries are parked on these big open vehicles and the drivers are taken by minibus to a safer closed carriage for the journey.
It seems to be one of these minibuses that collided with a freight vehicle on a platform.
I’m currently just outside the terminal, where I’m seeing fewer blue lights inside the terminal than there were earlier. I’m also seeing quite a lot of blue light vehicles leaving.
It all seems to have been quite contained on one platform.
There were plenty of cars queueing up at check-in when I drove past just now, and I saw some cars going through check-in, so despite the collision they weren’t being held.