Armed Police Race To Crash Scene After Lorry Carrying More Than £1 MILLION In Cash Spills Load

Officers carrying powerful rifles were surrounded vehicle after crates carrying coins littered the road in Swindon, Wiltshire

Expensive: Coins were left scattered on the road

Armed cops were forced to protect a crash site today after a lorry believed to be carrying more than £1 MILLION in cash spilled its load.

Officers carrying powerful rifles surrounded the Loomis vehicle after crates carrying coins littered the road in Swindon, Wiltshire.

Passers-by and fellow motorists claimed to have seen the lorry brake hard as it approached a roundabout in Mead Way at around 1.30pm.

As it did this, trollies laden with coins believed to be worth thousands crashed through the front of its trailer.

Haul: More than £1 million was knocked out of the lorry

Workers work to remove cash that had spilled when a Loomis lorry crashed in Swindon, Wiltshire

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