Driver escapes as lorry careers off M-way
00:00, 21 February 2002
POLICE closed the M20 for three hours today to recover a lorry that had plunged down an 18-foot embankment at Ashford.
The articulated lorry left the motorway just after junction 9 by the Cineworld complex at about 5am.
The driver was travelling to London from Germany. Police say he escaped with only minor injuries.
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