A road maintenance worker suffered serious injuries when he was hit by a car in thick fog while working on a busy road near Bridgnorth.
Devon seemed a long way away as we set off from Shropshire along the busy motorways leading south, but once we got to the land of cream teas, cider and thatched cottages our tiredness floated away.
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