Lorry spills its load
Saturday 13th March 2010, 11:30AM GMT.
A lorry overturned spilling straw bales onto electricity cables in a village near Shrewsbury.
The incident resulted in the live cables ending up on the B4386 Montgomery Road near to the Cock Inn, Brockton, near Worthen, yesterday.
Fire crews from Minsterley were called at about 11.30am and were on standby while the road was closed by police and an electrical engineer called.
A spokesman for West Mercia Police said nobody was injured. He said: “A lot of straw came down over electrical cables and brought them down live on the road.
“The road was closed at the junction between the B4386 and the Binweston turn.”
The road reopened at about 1.30pm.
Ray Bloor, a hay and straw merchant from Powys, who owns the lorry, said it was being driven by an employee but he did not yet know the circumstances of the crash.
Police are appealing for witnesses to contact them.
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