Sentence examples similar to broken lorry from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of migrants – mainly from east Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan – attempted to take advantage of queuing traffic by breaking into lorries bound for the UK.

On Tuesday, police had to urge motorists to avoid Fambridge Road after one of the lorries broken down near a pub.

The lorry had broken down about 500 metres down a flooded road in Tewkesbury.

At the age of seven, he came home to find his father, a lorry-driver, in a plaster cast, having slipped and broken an ankle.

One time, I jumped from a lorry and broke my hand.

Officers spotted the incident during a three-month pilot scheme which used an unmarked HGV tractor to target lorry drivers breaking the law.

He had broken away from the perch where he was tethered after being spooked by a lorry.

This was a purely criminal investigation to determine if the conduct of the bin lorry driver, Harry Clarke, had breached the law - and also if Glasgow City Council had broken health and safety regulations.

In Calais, migrants hoping to reach the UK continued to try and break into slow-moving lorries on gridlocked roads.

The ensuing chaos led to long tailbacks on both sides of the Channel and in Calais hundreds of migrants attempted to break into stationary cars and lorries as they waited on gridlocked motorways.

Images of burning barricades and hundreds of people trying to break into the back of lorries at the peak of the holiday season have sparked fierce political debate on both sides of the Channel, once again focusing attention on Europe's simmering migrant crisis.