Highways Agency Traffic Officers proved to be the real heroes of the motorway when they helped a stranded Superman and his friends on the M40 recently.
Traffic Officers Phil Atkinson and Rajinder Mahay from the Agency's Eastern Region came across the 'man of steel' on the hard shoulder between junction 2 and 1a after he had to pull over with a punctured tyre. He had been driving in convoy with Spiderman, Batman, Robin and The Riddler, who were also parked on the hard shoulder. It turned out that the superheroes had decided to travel in costume from Birmingham to a car show in France.
The traffic officers escorted Superman and his car to a safe place off the motorway and helped to arrange recovery.
Driver Paul Wood, a.k.a Superman, from Solihull said: "We thought driving in fancy dress seemed like a good idea. You'd think with the super powers between us we could have picked the car up and flown it off the motorway. We were very grateful to the Traffic Officers for their help. They made sure we were safe, helped us sort recovery out and also checked on us later to see if we were ok."
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