Sea of red on highway after lorry overturns, spills load of canned sardines


IPOH: A lorry carrying a load of canned sardines overturned across southbound lanes of the North-South Expressway at KM265.9 at 12.43pm on Wednesday (Aug 3) closing the road temporarily to traffic from the Menora Tunnel to Ipoh.

PLUS Malaysia Bhd said on Twitter that traffic was backed up for three kilometres and that travellers heading south were being diverted to the Kuala Kangsar exit.

"A contraflow lane was started from KM267.0 to KM265.1 northbound and traffic is slow," PLUS said.

Bernama saw ruptured cans of sardines in tomato sauce scattered on the road and work to remove the overturned lorry was continuing.

Kuala Kangsar district police chief, ACP Omar Bakhtiar Yaacob, said the road would be reopened after the clean-up is done. – Bernama

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