Four die in spate of road accidents across England

Three people were killed in a crash in Lincolnshire yesterday morning.

The A15 was closed in both directions at Baston after the fatal collision involving a car and a lorry on the A15 in Lincolnshire at 6.15am.

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 man died and another person suffered life-threatening injuries after three crashes on the A47 in Cambridgeshire.

All the collisions are believed to have involved the same vehicle and led to the road near Peterborough being shut in both directions.

Another person was injured and the A120 was partially closed after a 17-car pile-up between Colchester and Elmstead Market, Essex Police said.

Meanwhile, dozens of stranded motorists had to be pulled from snow drifts.

At least eight people died as freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall swept across Europe.

Police in Poland said five people died as a result of temperatures which dropped as low as -22C, bringing the number of deaths from hypothermia in the country to 58 this winter.

Three deaths were reported in Romania as blizzards battered the country, leaving scores of roads blocked by snowdrifts.

Officials closed dozens of roads in the south and east of the country after heavy snowfall overnight.

Some drivers were stranded all night.