Eight inches of snow turns road into trap for cars
KITCHEN staff at a West Lancashire pub launched a full-scale rescue operation when the landlord and landlady became trapped in the snow.
Jill and Peter McMahon were returning to the Plough Inn, Plough Lane, in Ormskirk, after spending the night away and they got stuck, along with a dozen other cars in 8 inches of snow.
They called their pub for help and the pub's chef, the kitchen porter and their 16-year-old son, James, came to the rescue.
Even a neighbour, a local farmer, joined in by helping tow cars out with his tractor. Mrs McMahon said: "You couldn't see what it was like from the end of the road as nobody had closed it off.
"Cars were driving along and kept getting stuck, at one point there were about 17 vehicles."
The staff helped the McMahons' neighbour, and a passing motorist in a 4x4, tow the vehicles out of the snow, while James provided the stranded with cups of tea.
Mrs McMahon said: "We were there for hours and the lads worked really hard in the freezing cold to get us out and then we all came to the pub afterwards to warm up.
"The police came to help for some of it, but it is a bit annoying because that road is very busy and nobody bothered to close it off.
"People just kept turning down it, unaware that they wouldn't be able to get through."
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