Name: Lorry Fire on M5: Motorists play football after M5 remains shut due to this morning's lorry fire
Uploaded: 2024-10-25T14:32:27.000Z
Duration: 31 s
Description: A lorry carrying potentially hazardous chemicals caught fire, shutting the Somerset section between junction 22, at Burnham-on-Sea, and junction 23, from 9.30am. Fed up drivers - who are still stuck - got out their cars for a kick at about at around 12.30pm, while they waited for the road to reopen.

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Watch as groups of delayed motorists leave their cars and start multiple mini games of football along two miles of motorway.

A lorry carrying potentially hazardous chemicals caught fire, shutting the Somerset section of the M5, between junction 22 at Burnham-on-Sea, and junction 23 yesterday (October 25).

Fed up drivers got out of their cars for a kick about at around 12.30pm, while they waited for the road to reopen.

Kelly Jakeman, 29, an admin assistant, from Stourbridge, Birmingham, had been stuck since 9.30am.

A lorry carrying potentially hazardous chemicals caught fire, shutting the Somerset section between junction 22, at Burnham-on-Sea, and junction 23, from 9.30am. Motorists stuck on the M5 in four mile long queues have abandoned their cars - to play a game of football on the carriageway. | Kelly Jakeman / SWNS

She said: "There were loads of different groups playing football, and it was actually quite nice to see. There were a few mini games going across two miles of road."

The affected section of the M5 has now reopened.

Motorway football! M5 drivers start multiple football games as they wait for road to reopen after lorry fire

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