Pizza lorry leaves traffic frozen on major motorway

A lorry has come to block all three lanes of a major motorway after jacknifing on Thursday night.

The northbound lanes of the M2, just to the north of Belfast, had been closed from the Greencastle area as efforts were made to recover the vehicle.

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The M2 in Belfast

The PSNI did not report any injuries.

The incident occurred shortly before 10pm.

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The M2 in Belfast

At time of writing, there was no indication it had reopened.

It followed major public transportation disruption due to a mysterious object striking a train.

The motorway re-opened at about 3.30am.

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