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Roughton crash in icy conditions involves 12 vehicles | Roughton crash in icy conditions involves 12 vehicles |
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A 12-vehicle crash in foggy conditions on an icy road has left one person injured in Norfolk. | A 12-vehicle crash in foggy conditions on an icy road has left one person injured in Norfolk. |
The accident, on the A140 at Roughton at about 07:25 GMT, was one of 12 police dealt with earlier. | |
Some of the vehicles collided while others skidded off the road, Norfolk Police said. | Some of the vehicles collided while others skidded off the road, Norfolk Police said. |
The road was closed between the B1436 Thorpe Market Road junction and the White Post Road junction but reopened just after 12:20 GMT. | |
Read more on this and other stories from Norfolk | Read more on this and other stories from Norfolk |
Insp John Chapman, from the road policing unit, said his team alone had dealt with seven accidents "in the space of an hour". | |
He said bearing in mind the weather conditions, "it didn't surprise me that we were suffering quite a high volume of road traffic collisions". | |
"Fortunately, there were no serious injuries in any of these... but there was obviously a high demand on our resources." | |
He advised drivers to "expect the unexpected" during the cold snap. |
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