Road chaos as lorry spills fuel
Friday 13th February 2009, 11:49AM GMT.
Rush-hour traffic was brought to a standstill today after a lorry from a Shropshire company spilled 150 litres of diesel onto a main road in a Mid Wales town.
The lorry, from a builders merchants in Craven Arms, was struck by a metal sheet, splitting its fuel tank, as it drove through roadworks on the A483 near Garth Owen, Newtown, shortly after 9am.
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