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Slip road onto A47 closed after lorry spill
Thursday, 12.30am: The slip road connecting the A1 southbound and the A47 near Wansford re-opened at 12.30am following a crash on Wednesday afternoon.
A lorry carrying a trailer with 26 tonnes of compost tipped onto its side while joining the A47 at 1.20pm.
Police closed off the road and estimated that 200 litres of diesel spilled into the road.
Most of the trailer’s load needed to be removed before work to right the the vehicle could begin.
The driver was left with minor injuries, but was stuck inside the vehicle and needed to be cut out by the Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.
A spokesman for the police said: “We were called at 1.20pm to reports that a lorry had gone over on itself on a slip road from the A1 onto the A47.
“The driver was initially trapped and there was a fuel spill of an estimated 200 litres of fuel.
He said: “Although he was trapped, the driver was okay and was not seriously injured.”
The fire service sent two crews from Stamford and Dogsthorpe to help the man from the vehicle at 1.25pm.
A spokesman for the fire service said: “Firefighters used specialist cutting equipment to release one male casualty, and returned to their stations by 2.40pm.”
The Highways Agency and Environment Agency were also called to the scene to help with the clear-up.
A spokeswoman from the Environment Agency said: “The fuel spill was a smaller amount than initially thought.
“It was from the lorry itself, not a tanker.
“The fire service used Environment Agency equipment to stop any leakage, and our officers went out to assist them.”
The Environment Agency also scoured nearby drains and rivers to make sure no fuel had into them.
A spokesman for the Highways Agency said: “We sent an incident support unit to the scene at 2.30pm, but needed to wait for the police to give us the all-clear before we started the clean up.
“Diversions were put up and we understand all the vehicles were accommodating in using other slip roads.”
A Highways Agency spokesman said last night that following “slip tests” the road remained closed longer than expected to allow further cleaning work.
Latest news from www.trafficengland.com reports the road is not expected to re-open until 10pm.
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Apsleyman
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 08:32 PMI wonder why my comment was removed when it had nothing untoward in it and yet a comment suggesting someone carrying out a legitimate procedure on the vehicle is committing theft is allowed to stay?
Bamboozler
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 12:12 PM#3 - It was initial image that threw me, as coming off the A1 southbound onto the A47, "I thought" there were no houses on that side of the A1. Whilst coming off the A1 northbound, to get onto the A1, you would see houses in the background.
PottyBoroPensioner
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:19 AMComment removed by moderator
gogetit
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 07:43 PMis that someone nicking metal in the video?
Apsleyman
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 05:59 PMComment removed by moderator
Bamboozler
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 05:29 PMSurely, that is the Northbound sliproad. The was going North and has turned off on the sliproad to the A47, making it impossible to get off at Wansford on the northbound at that point. This leaves two ways to get to Wansford off the A1, one past the Haycock and two, at the old Little Chef
Boro-For-A-Pie
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 05:22 PM@1 FAIL
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