A busy motorway was shut for 12 hours yesterday (Wednesday, December 20) after a lorry carrying potatoes crashed, scattering 22 tonnes of spuds.
The potatoes needed to be cleared by hand, inflicting carnage for drivers travelling southbound on the M5 as individuals made journeys house for Christmas. Police officers and highways groups chipped in to salvage as many spuds as doable, with these saved given to an area charity.
The lorry overturned at round 8am and led to closures for many of the remainder of the day in Devon between J28 (Cullompton) and J29 (Exeter) southbound. All three lanes had been affected.
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(Image: National Highways: South-West / SWNS)
Thankfully, Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed no critical accidents had been suffered because of the crash. The power’s Roads Policing Team shared an image of their officers gathering the potatoes on social media and wrote: “Despite our efforts the M5S remains shut whilst we empty 22 tons of potatoes mainly by hand! We are rescuing as many as possible for charity!”
It wasn’t till 8pm that the street was lastly reopened – 12 hours after the preliminary crash.
This comes after it emerged one among Britain’s ballistic missile early warning bases tracked a UFO that left army chiefs baffled. A secret investigation was ordered in 1981 following the incident at RAF Fylingdales, close to Whitby in Yorkshire.
(Image: Devon & Cornwall Roads Policing SWNS)
RAF Fylingdales is a part of the NORAD missile defence system. Its main goal is to present the British and US governments warning of an impending ballistic missile assault, and it was a part of the four-minute warning system through the Cold War. But it seems Soviet missiles aren’t all the bottom can detect.
RAF Group Captain David Todd, the Senior Duty Officer on the base on the time, informed The Sun it was commonplace for unknown entities to pop up on the radar at RAF Fylingdales. But one specific incident was completely different.
He stated: “We could not match it up with anything on our computers. And radar tracked it for quite a long time. We had quite a lot of information on it. It appeared to be in Earth’s orbit and we waited for it to come around again but it did not return. So that got us really interested, because people started saying ‘ooh, is it a UFO?’.”
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