Man sat on motorway causes tailbacks
POLICE held back traffic on a Hampshire motorway after a man sat down on the hard shoulder and refused to move.
Cars came to a standstill on the southbound M3 near Winchester when the man staged his sit-in between junctions 10 and 11.
Officers arrested the man under section one of the Mental Health Act, before re-opening the carriageway.
It is not known why the man staged his sit-in.
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