A lorry driver who became trapped in his vehicle after a motorway smash has been freed and taken to hospital.
The 47-year-old became stuck in his cab after his truck hit the central reservation of the M60 at Junction 18, Simister Island, and overturned.
Huge rush hour delays with tailbacks of up to 20 miles were caused by the crash, which happened at 3.15pm
The man was taken to North Manchester General Hospital with minor injuries after being freed by fire crews.
Three lanes in the clockwise direction were closed while debris was cleared and reopened at around 6pm.
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i am sat in te traffic right now. it is insane. women are crying in the car behind me.
Why are they crying? They are only stuck in a traffic jam. If they were on their way to pick up the kids fom school it serves em right. Make em walk and cut down on obesity!
Do you know what the traffic on the anti clockwise direction is like around the site of the accident?
Oh dear, bang goes my romantic dinner out tonight at Pacifica!
Boxbag, Middleton (22/09/2010 at 16:47),
they are crying because they are losing precious time in the trafford centre and its 12 billion womens shops.
ooh sexist
have you not thought they could be on the way to a hospital to see a family member who is really poorly or has been rushed to a&e??? there are quite a few along that motorway!!!
Yet again, a truck has brought chaos, barring servere mechanical failure how on Earth did the lorry crash and overturn. I'd like to see some form of financial penalty on the company concerned and the finances used to improve the recovery mechanisms on the Motorway so that when events to occur like this they are cleared up a lot quicker
I saw it happen; the lorry hit the barrier almost right next to me (in the opposite lane). Close enough for it's load to be shed straight in front of me. It looked like fruit'n'veg to me; for what is reported as "liquid food waste" there were certainly solids in it!
The accident could have been a LOT worse; it's a wonder there wasn't a skid on the opposite carriageway where the load was shed.
I'm not surprised people were crying if they were that close to witness it. It's quite scary seeing a lorry go over right in front of you!
was this truck in the third lane then! 3 hrs stuck on a motorway is not funny, especially with GMP and the highways agency dragging their feet yet again>.
Is this why the city centre was choked with traffic,or was it dur to the students coming back.Either way Manchester has been very quiet for 3 months just shows what it could be like.
NEWSFLASH - the lorry That overturned on M60 was loaded with vicks vapour rub, police have said there will be no congestion !
Said a Greater Manchester Police spokesman, sat in an office whilst watching Top Gear on Dave...
3 hour closure...typical and total over-reaction from GMP who just love closing roads along with their partners in crime, the utterly useless Highways Agency. Last evening, I saw an American TV news item about a light aircraft landing on a freeway - they closed two lanes and the cars were just tootling past it happily. The police priority should be to keep the traffic moving, not to bring it to a standstill for as long as possible.
took from 5pm to 9.30pm to get home from work near the airport t Bolton.....total JOKE! 4 & 1/2 hours to travel 17 miles! One thing happens and the whole of Manchester and surrounding areas come to a complete gridlock.
Unfortunately there are a lot of inexperienced drivers out there who don't know how to slow down and drive carefully when the road surface conditions are not in good condition, (eg snow, ice, heavy rain surface water) so when there is an accident you then get diesel, oil and in this case fruit and veg covering the road, so if the police and highways agency didn't shut the motorway to clean up all the mess then you would continue getting more crashes for the rest of the day, maybe some fatalities, and then the police would be blamed for deaths for not cleaning up the mess. THINK!
I agree with Lisa. Plus the motorway was not closed as some of you keep harping on about. The M60 is 4 lanes either side at the point where this happened. This resulted in 1 lane being open for traffic. The traffic authorities TRIED to get people to file along in a way that 2 lanes of traffic could past but as usual you get the selfish 'I'm much more important than you in my luxurious big car' idiots not following the matrix or manual instructions being given which caused more chaos. Whythe hell dont the police just pull these people and book them. Utter selfishness. It said lanes 2,3 & 4 CLOSED, MOVE OVER for a reason. And yes that meant YOU as well in the Black Porsche 4x4 who had obviously just tootled on past the rest of us who had Q'd and waited like law abiding citizens. Some people.... I just despare, I literally do. The bloody roads would manage a lot better if people did THINK and would also do as they were told to do by matrix signs. The Germans laugh at us Brits because we CAUSE the congestion by being impatient