Driver stuck in snow for five hours on M62 spent 'horrific' night shivering in her car

A woman who spent five hours stuck in the snow on the M62 has told of her 'horrific' night spent shivering in her car. Ashleigh Marsden, 31, didn't get home from a concert in Manchester until 5am today - despite setting off at 11pm last night.

After heavy snow on the M62 caused stand-still traffic all night, Ashleigh, from Bradford, West Yorks, was left shivering in her car. She had been to watch Chris Brown's concert at the AO Arena with a friend, and the drive home should have taken just over an hour.

Ashleigh described a 'horrific' night as the pals sat shivering in her car. She said: "We had thought the concert might be cancelled because of the weather, but it went ahead so we went.

"Manchester was ok for snow, but the surrounding areas were terrible so we were surprised it went ahead. We did consider booking a hotel but thought it would be ok - in hindsight, we should have booked."

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The women's fashion buyer didn't get back home until 5am. She said she witnessed 'lorry pile-ups' and countless 'cars scattered across roads'.

She recalled a lorry nearly colliding into the side of her car as it skidded across the road. She likened the chaos to 'fairground dodgems' at one point when they approached an incline.

Ashleigh said: "I'm quite a confident driver and I was a bag of nerves looking up at that hill. On the side were a few lorries broken down, and cars stranded.

"We had to rely on car in front and follow their tracks and just hope we'd be ok. We got home in the end at 5am - and I was up for work again at 8am!

"In the standstill traffic I turned my engine off but I had to keep turning it on again because it