United Kingdom - Ireland

Sep. 09, 1967 - Starting a slow crawl on the M5. After Lorry spills filings for 25 miles.: The two men in the picture know what its like to be in a crawl on the motorway. They were among the 40 workmen called in to clear thousands of iron fillings which dropped from a lorry on the southbound carriage way of the M5 in Worcestershire. Two motorists had telephoned for help at 4 a.m. when they came to a stop on the motorway with five punctures between them. A breakdown service promised to get to the stranded drivers as quickly as possible. But before reaching them the breakdown lorry broke down. With a puncture. Investigations showed that 25 miles of the southbound lane was strawn with iron filings. So the workmen - and six mechanical sweepers - were called in. The work of clearing the filings was held up, because several of the sweeping machines had been temporarily put out of action - with puncture

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Breakdown Broke Clear Clearing Crawl Drivers Dropped Filings Fillings Investigations Lorry Mechanical Motorists Motorway Possible Promised Puncture Punctures Quickly Reaching Showed Slow Southbound Spills Starting Stranded Sweepers Sweeping Telephoned Temporarily Worcestershire Workmen

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