Part of the M42 is shut after a six-vehicle crash sent marshmallows and beer spilling out onto the carriageway.
The northbound stretch was closed at junctions 10 and 11, near Tamworth Services, after several lorries and a van collided at about 0400 GMT.
The Highways Agency said delays of about 30 minutes were expected and the section of road was likely to remain closed until Friday afternoon.
Drivers are being advised to use alternative routes.
this is no Friday joke.
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Reminds me of a crash reported on the radio a few years ago between a lorry carring peaches and a lorry carrying cream. The radio presenter said motorists should approach the scene "carefully...with a spoon".
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Why is it that reports of everyday things being spilled on the road are always so amusing? (As long as no one is hurt, of course)
We don't snigger at the idea of beer or marshmallows on shop shelves, yet the idea of them spilling out of a lorry makes me immediately smile.
Then imagine teddy bears, garden gnomes, treacle, condoms, etc and I want to roll about laughing.
Maybe its the follow-up image of Mr Plod writing it all down in his notebook in the well-worn manner - "I was proceeding along the M42 in a northerly direction when I noticed 2 million marshmallows lying in the road. I immediately stopped to ascertain the salient facts and formed the impression that they were under the influence of alcohol."
Edited by Cliff Pope on 28/11/2008 at 15:31
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Why is it that reports of everyday things being spilled on the road are always so amusing? (As long as no one is hurt of course)
Things out of place or out of time are the basis of most jokes.
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Or the time a lorry carrying garden storage units lost its load - a shed-load of sheds has been shed.
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Crowds trying to get to the cricket Test match between South Africa and bangladesh in durban today were delayed by a lorry load of bananas, which had spilled across the motorway, disrupting traffic. (SA won by an innings and 48 runs.)
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A month ago a stretch of the M42 was closed for the best part of 20 hours after a 2 lorry accident littered the road with lard ( small, sealed packages ). Not taking the time the police spent examining every square inch of this ' crime scene " does it really take that long to clear up such a spill ?
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It didn't take long to clear a load of whisky spilled from a wagon on a road in the North East a few years ago.
The subsequent arrests of one policeman and five firefighters on suspicion of theft were quite swift, too.
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Road closed from 0400hrs until Friday afternoon! - what were they cleaning it up with? - Tongues? ;-)
billy
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lorry load of onoins took a spill on the A47, police are asking drivers to cry on the hard shoulder
Edited by zookeeper on 28/11/2008 at 17:32
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>>what were they cleaning it up with? - Tongues? ;-)<<
Just a motorway? You were lucky, we had it tough. Our dad used to make us get up before we'd gone to bed, lick the motorway clean, polish all the tracks on network rail and filter t'sea clean before had to go down the pit for 18 hours before breakfast......
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I like it when they refer to a "shed load".
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phah! We used to work 25 hours a day AND pay for't privilege.
JH
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A good few years ago an artic went over on a roundabout in Bracknell, it had 25tons of ice lollies on board (it was summer), they found a very efficient way of getting the load cleared up, just let everyone take as much as they wanted. Job done.
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I'd call it a sticky situation...
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Bit of a sticky situation for me at the traffic lights at the end of our street - thought I was doing the right thing getting out of the car and banging on the window of the big yellow truck next to me to tell the driver he was shedding his load. It was a gritter.........
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Anyone remember Charringtons in the 1960s? They sold beer and heating oil - and if you drank the beer you realised that they came in the same tanker.
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Anyone remember Charringtons in the 1960s? They sold beer and heating oil - and if you drank the beer you realised that they came in the same tanker.
That was preferable to red barrel served up by watneys. I am sure it was red x.
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Yes, you have a point there, AE - oil being generally of a higher class than dishwater.
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