Four die in car crashes amid heavy snowfall

Four people have died in car crashes amid heavy snow across Britain.

Three were killed in a crash in Lincolnshire and another man died after a collision in Cambridgeshire yesterday morning.

The Met Office said several centimetres of snow had fallen in some parts overnight, with between 3cm and 4cm in Newcastle and Northumberland.

Motorists have been warned to take extra care on the roads and drive to the snowy conditions. There were 20 collisions within three hours on Lincolnshire’s roads, including a school bus with 45 pupils on board, police said. The children were unharmed after their bus collided with a car and veered off the road near Deeping St James. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said some of the roads had “very icy conditions”. Many schools across the country were shut, including more than 200 in Wales.