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Thousands of pints of beer lost after fire in lorry

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service The back of a lorry with its back door open and loads of beer inside it. Some of it has turned to rubble due to the fire. Some of the contents of the lorry has also poured out of the lorry. There is a firefighter standing to the right of the image. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service
Fire crews were called to a blaze on the M11 on Thursday evening

An estimated 40,000 pints of beer have been lost after a lorry trailer that was transporting the alcohol caught on fire on the M11.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service was called to the southbound carriageway, between junction nine near Saffron Walden and junction eight for Bishop's Stortford, on Thursday at about 20:00 BST.

The blaze was put out by 21:03, but the road had to be closed while the trailer was removed.

The service said the lorry was carrying about 25 tonnes of beer and crews from Newport, Saffron Walden and Stansted attended the incident.

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