Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear colleagues were embroiled in an April Fools’ Day joke that caused traffic chaos in Holland on Monday.
But this time the BBC stars were entirely innocent.
A Dutch policeman thought it would be funny to put a message on the force’s national website warning a 30-kilometre stretch of freeway would be shut down for the TV team to attempt a world land speed record.
The notice of the bogus closure of one of Holland’s busiest roads, the ten-lane A2 from Amsterdam to Utrecht, was up for an hour.
The Dutch justice ministry didn’t see the funny side, saying police ‘moved to avoid confusion after a thoughtless action’, while police said it was ‘an action of a single colleague’. - Daily Mail