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About Engineers Clear A Burning Lorry From UK's Busiest Motorway

Recovery teams face some of their most demanding jobs yet as a burning lorry shuts down the M1 during rush hour, a fully loaded 44-ton Arctic sinks into a muddy country verge, and a crane truck becomes stranded on a rugby pitch. With traffic chaos building and huge vehicles needing specialist recoveries, the engineers must use skill, experience and powerful machinery to get Britain's roads moving again.

Engineers Clear A Burning Lorry From UK's Busiest Motorway is presented by Naked Science. Its listed runtime is 42 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

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Title
Engineers Clear A Burning Lorry From UK's Busiest Motorway
Category
Society
Runtime
42 minutes
Language
English
Publisher
Naked Science

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