{"id":127353,"date":"2021-06-02T21:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=127353"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:08:23","slug":"sauce-of-long-delays-spilled-tomato-puree-brings-chaos-to-busy-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/sauce-of-long-delays-spilled-tomato-puree-brings-chaos-to-busy-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauce of long delays! Spilled tomato puree brings chaos to busy road"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The sauce of long delays! Lorry load of tomato puree spills, bringing chaos to the A14 in Cambridgeshire<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A14 in Cambridgeshire was closed after a lorry carrying tomato puree crashed<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Driver hospitalised as trailer&#8217;s contents spilled across the busy dual carriageway<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>23-mile stretch of road was shut as urgent resurfacing works were carried out\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Social media users shared best puns as pictures of aftermath emerged online<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Social media users have shared their best puns after pictures revealed the &#8216;sauce&#8217; of long delays on a busy road as two lorries collided.<\/p>\n<p>Tomato puree was left leaking out onto the 23-mile strech of dual carriageway after a pair of HGVs collided near the Offord junction on the A14, Cambridgeshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident prompted huge delays as the road was shut for more than 10 hours after urgent resurfacing works were required.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Twitter users poked fun at the pictures that emerged online, with many offering up their best puns in response.<\/p>\n<p>One user wrote: &#8216;Drivers warned to passata safe speed.&#8217; While another asked: &#8216;When will traffic be able to ketch up?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43753661-9645449-image-a-7_1622657111542.jpg\" height=\"437\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tomato puree (above) flooded the A14 in Cambridgeshire yesterday evening after two lorries collided\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43753663-9645449-image-a-19_1622658643360.jpg\" height=\"428\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Twitter users were quick to poke fun at the &#8216;sauce&#8217; of the long delays on the busy dual carriageway<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on the A14 near Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A lorry carrying tomato puree and tons of olive oil jack-knifed on the busy dual carriageway and shed its load &#8211; causing the thick sauce to flood the A14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver of one of the HGVs was hospitalised following the crash but was later discharged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cambs Police wrote on Twitter: &#8216;What looked like the set of a horror film was actually thousands of squashed tomatoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The incident on the A14 at Godmanchester yesterday evening involved two jack-knifed lorries, including one carrying tons of olive oil and tomatoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The road reopened just before 1pm today.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43753699-9645449-image-a-6_1622656835309.jpg\" height=\"369\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 23mile stretch of the A14 (shown) was closed for &#8217;emergency resurfacing&#8217; after the spillage<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of social media users poked fun at the tomato-laden disaster with their juiciest jokes and puns.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Lyons said: &#8216;I went pasta that. Took a while for the traffic to ketchup.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>John Moss added: &#8216;Spaghetti Junction would seem more appropriate.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>@Venuechange said: &#8216;Drivers warned to be careful and passata sensible speed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>While @simonscider chided: &#8216;Big cheer to all the emergency services and clear up crew. Hip Hip Puree!!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43754431-9645449-image-a-20_1622658679827.jpg\" height=\"279\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43754429-9645449-image-a-21_1622658681941.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43754427-9645449-image-a-22_1622658685274.jpg\" height=\"255\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43754425-9645449-image-a-23_1622658694351.jpg\" height=\"245\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43754421-9645449-image-a-24_1622658701606.jpg\" height=\"226\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43754469-9645449-image-a-25_1622658731333.jpg\" height=\"264\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/02\/19\/43754473-9645449-image-a-26_1622658733927.jpg\" height=\"232\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of social media users poked fun at the tomato-laden disaster with their juiciest jokes and puns<\/p>\n<p>The Beds, Herts and Cambs road policing unit explained the tomato puree was being kept in drums full of oil &#8211; which caused the road to require emergency repairs.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, @BCHRoadPolicingUnit tweeted a picture of the wreckage and said: &#8216;The collision from 01\/06\/21 which we attended yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This has caused the road to be closed for resurfacing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;2 vehicles. One driver injured, fortunately not too seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The red stuff over the road is tomato! Investigation ongoing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9645449\/Lorry-load-tomato-puree-spills-bringing-chaos-A14-Cambridgeshire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sauce of long delays! Lorry load<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sauce of long delays! 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