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| M62 debris: Cars hit metal plates on motorway | M62 debris: Cars hit metal plates on motorway |
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| About 20 cars were left with punctured tyres on the M62 in Merseyside after they ran over metal plates that had dropped off a lorry. | |
| The cars had to pull on to the hard shoulder of the eastbound carriageway between junction 6 for Tarbock Island and junction 7 for Rainhill Stoops. | The cars had to pull on to the hard shoulder of the eastbound carriageway between junction 6 for Tarbock Island and junction 7 for Rainhill Stoops. |
| The Highways Agency said the incident happened at about 06:20 BST. | |
| Traffic officers put a rolling road block in place while their colleagues cleared the debris. | |
| The area was said to be clear by 07:10 BST. | |
| A Highways Agency spokesman said: "We started taking calls at about 06:20 this morning, with some drivers saying they were stuck on the hard shoulder because they had gone over some metal. | |
| "Traffic officers sent to the scene discovered there had been a shed load of metal plates which had fallen to the ground. | |
| "A lorry driver later said he had seen the plates fall from a HGV onto the carriageway." | |
| Traffic on the Manchester-bound carriageway is now running as normal. |