Traffic census causes 11 mile tailback in soaring heat

Caught in an 11-mile traffic jam during the hottest July day on record sweltering motorists could only assume there had been an accident.
It was only, several hours later, as they finally approached the trouble spot, that they discovered there was no crash.
Instead, council officers had chosen the day that temperatures touched a record-breaking 97.7f (36.5c) to hold a traffic census.
And even when asked by police to call it off, they refused.

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Typical 'jobsworths' - rules is rules - forget common sense.