A TRAILER has turned over on Ketch roundabout, leaving the pavement covered in onions.

The estimated 10 tonnes of onions in the trailer have now been written off by the manager.

The 18-year-old tractor driver said: “A car pulled out in front of me, I braked and just as I dodged the car it went over.

“I was going to Evesham, this has not happened to me before. I don’t feel the best.”

The driver hurt his back in the incident, but did not require hospital treatment.

The tractor was pulling the trailer full of onions from a field in Kempsey to an Evesham farm, according to the driver.

Will Parrott, a manager who was callled to the incident, said: “It’s a bit of a mess.

“This does not happen often, we will just get it cleared up. The onions will be chucked away.”

Mr Parrott didn’t know what damage the trailer had sustained but said the tractor was okay.

More than a dozen labourers arrived to clean up the onions.

The left lane on the roundabout had been cordoned off and two police vehicles were parked next to the pavement.

A police officer at the scene said he had never seen a vehicle this big tip over and said the road could be closed.

A 72-year-old local resident said vehicles often overturned on the roundabout and predicted chaos during the recovery of the trailer.

The onions were being taken to the farm to be washed, packaged and sold, the driver said.