Highway flooded with prosecco: An accident involving a truck with 20 tons of sparkling wine paralyzed traffic

Broken bottles of Italian sparkling wine caused “serious traffic complications” on the M4 in Britain after a lorry carrying 20 tonnes of prosecco collided with another lorry. British police said. TASR informs about it according to the report of the DPA agency.

On Monday morning, after a collision with one of the trucks they dumped cartons of Prosecco on the road, while an empty container fell out of the other car, the traffic police said in a statement on social networks. The accident happened near Newbury and Hungerford in Berkshire, England. Police reported that one person suffered minor injuries in the incident. One of the drivers is currently being investigated for dangerous driving. Indications are that he was using a mobile phone behind the wheel. The highway was reopened in the afternoon after being temporarily closed.

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