Lethal litter
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Drive up and down motorways for long enough and you could probably furnish half your house. Electric cookers, washing machines, refrigerators, timber, bricks, beer crates, vehicle components and metal castings are among the debris collected daily on motorways.
Holiday-makers who are careless in stowing luggage and equipment on overloaded cars are responsible for some of the lethal litter, but lorry drivers must accept their share of the blame. Anyone who sees debris lying on a motorway should stop at the next emergency telephone and warn the police.
Shortly after I had scared myself stiff in running over half a propeller shaft dropped from an old Seddon van on M6 at Sandbach, I saw a worried driver walking down the hard shoulder in search of the missing part. I hope he was able to retrieve it without being killed and before someone else had a serious accident. A little maintenance on the vehicle might have prevented a dangerous incident.