Tortoise goes for stroll in rush-hour traffic

London: Perhaps the grass looked greener on the other side of the M25, or maybe he just needed the exercise.

For whatever reason, this tortoise decided to take a stroll through the rush-hour traffic.

He was spotted plodding across the fast lane, miraculously avoiding the speeding wheels as cars roared over him at 112km/h and more.

And by the time he was rescued unharmed, he had made it almost all the way across five lanes from the central reservation to the verge.

His saviour, John Formby, 43, was returning to his home in Worthing, West Sussex, when he noticed something on the road just after 5pm on Wednesday.

"I thought it was a bit of debris," he said. "I went to swerve but noticed it was moving - then saw it had a head.

"I couldn't believe it was a tortoise crossing the motorway through all that traffic."