Large container detaches from lorry and swerves across M25
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Large container detaches from lorry and swerves across M25
Dramatic dash cam footage shows the moment a large container separated from an HGV and narrowly avoided hitting drivers on a busy motorway.Motorist Christine Luff captured the heart-stopping incident while driving on the M25 motorway just outside Potters Bar in Hertfordshire on April 22.The 69-year-old from East Hunsbury in Northamptonshire was travelling on the busy road with her 89-year-old mother when the trailer carrying the 20-foot container became detached.
A five-mile stretch of the M25 motorway between junctions 10 and 11, which has been closed in both directions and will remain inaccessible until 6am on Monday while a bridge is demolished, and a new gantry installed. Concerns have been raised that thousands of drivers will be stuck in gridlocked traffic over the weekend during the first planned daytime closure in the motorway’s history. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Sir Ed Davey launches the Liberal Democrat’s local election campaign in Hertfordshire, by flipping a giant egg timer to reveal the message "Time's running out Rishi!" Speaking to activists afterwards, the Lib Dem leader said Rishi Sunak “might have bottled the May election, he might be hoping the tide will turn as he squats in Downing Street for a few months more. But even the prime minister can't deny voters across England the chance to cast their vote in the local elections on 2 May.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
A mysterious artist, dubbed the Daventry Banksie, has left a series of signs in Northamptonshire mocking West Northamptonshire Council for the number of potholes on the roads.
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