Drivers hospitalised after four-car pile-up

1:10am Wednesday 14th May 2008

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RUSH hour traffic was disrupted following a four-car crash on a motorway bridge.

The accident, involving a blue Mercedes C180, a Citroen Saxo, a black Toyota estate and a silver Vauxhall Vectra, happened on the B4636 at 7.50am, yesterday. (Tuesday May 13) The shunt was on the M5 motorway bridge and less than a mile from the Worcestershire Royal Hospital Police had to close the B4636 and divert rush hour traffic away from the area causing tailbacks on the A44, as far as White Ladies Aston, and the A4440.

Matters were made worse by existing closures on the A44 Spetchley Road, between the County Hall roundabout and the A4538 Pershore Road roundabout, where embankment safety works are continuing.

Andrew Christian-Brookes drove past the accident just before officers shut the road.

He said: "I was just taking my daughter to school and I would usually fly through there without a problem.

"It's unusual to have an accident there but it must have been a hell of a bang."

West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust sent a rapid response vehicle and an ambulance to the scene where a woman was treated for a non-serious knee injury and later taken to the nearby hospital.

A crew from Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service attended and made the vehicles safe but their specialist cutting gear was not needed.

Worcestershire County Council's highways engineers helped clear the wreckage and the road was reopened at 9.28am.