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A stretch of the M4 that closed overnight, after a crash and fire involving a car and a van, has reopened. The crash happened on the westbound carriageway in Berkshire, between junction 11 for ...
The Prince of Wales Bridge reopens after being closed due to an earlier collision.
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The Thorney Interchange is a system of slip roads connecting the M4 and M25 motorways near London. The slip road on which the incident occurred has a negative gradient and long right-hand curve of decreasing radius, with a signposted advisory speed limit of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h).
The accident took place at the time of year when daffodils bloom in Southern England. After the accident, some police officers who attended the scene planted daffodil bulbs in the bank on the side of the road next to the accident. For many years in the middle of March, the site was marked by a patch of yellow.
Referred to as the 1991 M4 motorway crash; heavy fog and a van driver either falling asleep or swerving to miss a pigeon in the outside lane led to a pileup and fiery crash involving 51 vehicles, leading to 10 deaths on the M4 in Hungerford, Berkshire, United Kingdom, between Membury and Hungerford. [17] 29 November 1991
A three-year-old boy remains in critical condition.
The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales. The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh element was largely complete by 1980, though a non-motorway section around Briton Ferry bridge remained until 1993.