A passing driver informed the Jelenia Góra Municipal Police dispatcher about the missing cover. A patrol immediately went to the scene. The officers secured the site.
A dozen or so metres farther away, on the roadside, they found the manhole cover. They put it back in place.
It is not known how the cover, weighing several dozen kilograms, ended up so far from the manhole. It may have been dislodged when a lorry drove over it, but an attempted theft has not been ruled out.
The information was passed on to the road administrator.
SM Jelenia Góra/ii