oddly enough

September 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

oddly enough

UK book halts traffic after truck turns over

LONDON

Andrew Marr’s latest book is literally stopping traffic.

Boxes containing 16.8 tons worth of the journalist’s history volume “The Making of Modern Britain” have been strewn across a busy English road after an accident.

Thames Valley Police said Wednesday that a truck carrying books overturned about 40 miles west of London just before midnight Tuesday.

The driver suffered cuts to his arms, and the road was closed throughout the night as the books were cleared away.

Video footage on the BBC website showed smashed-open boxes of the book piled by the roadside.

“The Making of Modern Britain” is described by its publisher as “a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the 20th century.”

Marr, a BBC reporter and presenter, apologized to anyone who had been inconvenienced and said he hoped the book was not “being taken off to be pulped.”

Oregon woman robs bank, picks up kids

GRANTS PASS, Ore.

Police in southern Oregon say a woman charged with robbing a bank in Grants Pass stopped to pick up her children at school on the way home.

The Grants Pass Daily Courier reported a woman walked into an Umpqua Bank branch shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, handed the teller a note demanding cash, and then rode off in a car driven by a man.

Police say a witness description of the car and license plates led to the home of 37-year-old Erica F. Anderson, who was arrested on robbery and theft charges after returning from picking up her daughters at their elementary school.

Authorities say 19-year-old Joshua K. Deeter Tseu drove the car and was arrested on the same charges.

It was unclear if either has an attorney.

Associated Press