{"id":66431,"date":"2025-05-01T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66431\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:10:14","slug":"m2-traffic-disruption-after-clothing-left-strewn-all-over-main-ni-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66431\/","title":{"rendered":"M2: Traffic disruption after clothing left strewn all over main NI motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The incident has resulted in tailbacks\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scene of the incident on the M2 northbound\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fd5d8bab-e400-4ceb-b58c-fdfe1e2dc46f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The scene of the incident on the M2 northbound<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tailbacks are forming on one of NI\u2019s main motorways after clothes were left strewn on the carriageway on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Photographs from the roadside on the M2 show vehicles having to manoeuvre to avoid a line of what appears to be clothing spread out for a few hundred yards in the left hand lane of the northbound road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The PSNI said the incident occurred after a lorry shed its load.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Police received a report just after 5.20pm on Thursday, May 1, that a lorry appeared to have shed its load on the M2 northbound, just after Templepatrick services, leaving debris in a live lane,\u201d said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Delays should be anticipated in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scene of the incident on the M2 northbound\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fd5d8bab-e400-4ceb-b58c-fdfe1e2dc46f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The scene of the incident on the M2 northbound<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">News Catch Up &#8211; 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