"There was a lot of jam and juices which went down the drain," Tommy Lindh, spokesperson for the Värmland police said. The drama unfolded when the door of the delivery van opened and a pallet, loaded with breakfast favourites, was thrown out onto the road.
Predictably, it led to a traffic jam with a section of the road being sealed off so a clean-up operation of broken glass and sticky substances could be attended to. Emergency services were dispatched and firefighters ensured that the traffic backlog could be unstuck.
Firefighter Fredrik Persson, from Sunne emergency services said: "It's a mixed compote, common pancake jam. We have a stretch of 70 - 100 metres that is just full of jam." Nobody was hurt in the incident with drivers urged to take an alternative route while the clean-up continued. Traffic got back underway at 2pm.
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The title of this one is just glorious. I'm not embarrassed to laugh aloud all by myself!
Happened near here with marmalade a few years ago. A soft sided loaded with marmalade hit a bridge and overturned. The road under the bridge was flooded with a mix of broken jars and marmalade. I recall being stopped by the police and told "you can't go that way, the road's six inches deep in marmalade." At the time I wondered what the cop had been smoking, until I saw the story in the paper the next day.
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