Busy motorway shut after ‘cows fall out of lorry’ inflicting journey mayhem

Police have needed to shut a piece of the M6 this afternoon after cows spilled out from a lorry and onto the highway.

Traffic officers from the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) have shuttered each northbound and southbound carriageways between Junctions 7 and 10 following the incident, with the animals reportedly “injured”. 

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