Greggs driver stranded on motorway gives away pasties and sausage rolls to freezing drivers
A HEROIC Greggs delivery driver dished out hot cakes and pastries to drivers stranded on the freezing A1.
Kind-hearted Jon Gowing left the safety of his warm lorry to trek through the snow with a tray of treats after getting stuck in the two-mile queue for hours.
What we know so far:
- Eleven people including a seven-year-old girl have now died in the wintry conditions
- Motorists stranded on the roads face spending a second night trapped in their cars
- A completely frozen car was pictured in north London after a water pipe burst and an incredible video of a man jumping onto a snow-covered trampoline went viral
- The military has been pulled in to help clear traffic after hundreds of drivers were stranded overnight on Britain's roads
- Brits have been told the country is 'not out of the woods' as another icy blast is expected over the weekend
- A number of councils and police forces have declared major incidents in the freezing conditions
- Football matches have been
- At least 9,000 have been left without electricity in the north of the country as power supplies suffer in the chill
- Hundreds of flights in and out of UK and Irish airports have been cancelled today
- A heroic bus driver managed to avoid disaster by swerving her bus around an out of control car on the snow
- Travellers were forced to huddle under blankets and makeshift shelters on stranded trains, cars and at airports overnight
- Eleven people including a seven-year-old girl have now died in the wintry conditions
- Many Brits have seen non-urgent ops postponed due to staff shortages and a lack of beds in some hospitals, as NHS bosses warn of the 'perfect storm' of the storm, norovirus and flu
Mechanical engineer Les Goff helped Jon hand out the goodies after walking through the snow to see how long the queue was.
He said: "The traffic had been stopped for a couple of hours so I went for a walk for a couple of miles to see if I could help, but I still couldn't see the start of the queue.
"I was walking back down the hill when I saw the Greggs guy at the back with the tail-lift and he just said 'Do you want some cakes'?
"He asked me to take some to the other drivers and he walked up the traffic and I walked down the traffic with doughnuts, vanilla slices and cakes, handing them out.
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"He was a top guy. He said if he hadn't delivered them by a certain time, they would go to waste.
"Obviously it was freezing, I couldn't feel my fingers and toes as I was walking along with this tray of cakes."
Roisin Currie, people and retail director at Greggs said: "We are incredibly proud of Jon and his act of kindness in what must have been a very tough situation for him and all the other poor people stuck on the A1 in this cold weather.
"We hope that his kind gesture was able to help make everyone's day a little bit better."
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