{"id":1170541,"date":"2026-08-26T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170541\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:57:10","slug":"west-yorkshire-offal-spill-was-like-a-horror-film-says-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170541\/","title":{"rendered":"West Yorkshire offal spill was &#8216;like a horror film&#8217;, says driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Piles of offal brought a busy road to a &#8220;standstill&#8221; earlier after intestines spilled from a lorry in West Yorkshire.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spill prompted the closure of the westbound exit slip road at Junction 26 of the M62 at Hartshead Moor Top at about 05:25 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lorry was then seen shedding its load along Denholme Gate Road in Hipperholme, where driver Nic Cole said vehicles were &#8220;sliding on the intestines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways confirmed the motorway slip road had reopened just after 10:30 BST following a clean-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cole said: &#8220;Honestly, the whole town was at a standstill with people even thinking it was aliens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People were being sick on the side of the street with the smell.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piles of offal brought a busy road to a &#8220;standstill&#8221; earlier after intestines spilled from a lorry in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1170542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-1170541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117162399994855803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}