Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Drivers so caught up in the chaos at petrol stations have been filling their tanks up with the wrong fuel, breakdown services have reported.
More than five times more people than usual are believed to have mistakenly put diesel in their petrol engine (or the other way round).
The AA said it had attended 250 incidents over the weekend compared to a mere 20-25 on an average day. READ MORE:M&S accused of offending Italians with 'disgusting' pizza post Putting the wrong fuel in your tank can cause serious problems with the engine, The Guardian has reported.
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