Chaos for drivers – in pictures
Monday 1st February 2010, 3:36PM GMT.
Drivers struggled on Cherry Tree Hill in Coalbrookdale. Picture by Star reader Richard Soames.
Parts of Shropshire were gridlocked today as fresh snowfall caused chaos on the roads. Hazardous driving conditions led to a spate of crashes across the county which closed roads and brought traffic to a standstill in their aftermath.
A serious smash on the M54 led to long tailbacks on the westbound carriageway between Shifnal and Telford. And the A458 Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury road was closed at Harley Bank as vehicles got stuck.
Many motorists claimed that roads had not been treated, although council chiefs insisted the gritters had been out overnight. Staff even gritted some roads by hand, they said.
The smash on the M54 caused long delays after a Nissan car collided with a lorry and was spun into the path of another lorry just after 6.30am.
A woman in the Nissan was cut from the wreckage and taken to hospital.
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The council are talking rubbish I was stuck on madeley bank for three hours this morning behind a lorry, attiva buses and various other vehicles that were trying to drive up and down the bank on packed ice and snow.one man phoned the council and had his phone on loudspeaker the operator stated that none of the roads in this area had been gritted. then shortly after the police arived accessed the situation and then decided to close the road. i started out at seven this morning and got to work at eleven approx 13 miles from Broseley to Donnington.
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