Snow plunged the M62 into chaos overnight as drivers got stuck for up to SEVEN - hours and some even abandoned their cars in the blizzards.
As temperatures plunged to below freezing overnight and snow fell over the Pennines near Greater Manchester, stretches of the motorway were shut off leaving drivers stuck in huge queues of traffic with miles of tailbacks.
Strong winds also caused highways officers to close off lanes on both carriageways of the M62 near Rochdale. Just before 3am, one driver Zoe tweeted a picture of long queues ahead on the M62 and said: "After 3.5 hours moving at a snail pace you finally think you're making progress. READ MORE: Greater Manchester's weekend weather borough-by-borough as snow makes way for higher temperatures "Then you see this ahead..
yeah I'm going nowhere! M62 + snow = FML." In a later tweet, she said it took four hours to get off the motorway. At around 3.30am, Naomi Roberts tweeted: "4 hours to reach J22 - lorries broken down and cars abandoned on the other side...
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