Essex: UPDATE: Overturned lorry closes part of A12 (From Halstead Gazette)
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Essex: UPDATE: Overturned lorry closes part of A12
8:52am Wednesday 23rd January 2013 in News
Essex: Overturned lorry closes part of A12
Police are still advising drivers to avoid the A12 northbound at Galleywood after a crash involving a lorry and Ford Focus this morning.
They estimate the northbound track will be closed for another couple of hours whilst the road is cleared.
One lane is open on the southbound track.
The collision just after 6.30am this morning resulted in the lorry driver being taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Ambulance service spokesman Gary Sanderson said: "On our arrival, the lorry driver was found trapped in the cab by his legs and the steering wheel.
"Paramedics and hazardous area response team operatives worked extremely hard to treat, stabilise and immobilise him before he was taken to Basildon Hospital for further care."
The overturned lorry has shed its load of bricks on the carriageway.
Regbluebottle says...
6:59pm Wed 23 Jan 13
Once again terrible sloppy journalism on this site.....no wonder people don't actually go and buy your *newspaper* anymore and actually pay for such incompetent rubbish.