Hail storm causes nine vehicle pile up on the A436 near Birdlip
CARS flipped onto their roofs in a nine-vehicle pile-up after a sudden hailstorm.
It closed the busy A436 in both directions between Seven Springs and the Air Balloon roundabout during rush-hour yesterday.
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CLOSED: Birdlip, near the Air Balloon.
Miraculously no-one was injured in the incident.
A Great Western Ambulance spokesman said: "We were called at 3.20pm with reports of an RTC and two cars ended up on their roofs.
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"Luckily no-one was seriously injured.
"There were 11 patients all together, four of those were walking wounded with extremely minor injuries, while two people went to hospital as a precaution.
"But nobody involved has any kind of injury as such."
Gloucestershire Constabulary shut the road in both directions while ambulance crews dealt with those involved.
"The cause of the collision has been attributed to a sudden hail storm," said police spokesman Simon Masters.
The road was still closed off at the time of going to press.
A diversion was put in place through Leckhampton Hill.
Duncan McGaw, chairman of Coberley parish councillor, said his thoughts were with those who were caught up in the crash. He said: "I wouldn't want to speculate at all on what can have caused the accident but it sounds very serious indeed with that many vehicles involved. We don't like to see any road accidents take place in our area."
2 Comments
by lordigaga
Sunday, February 10 2013, 12:42PM
“I wish i was in charge of driving tests, at a stroke it would reduce emissions, and road over crowding, by keeping people who can't drive properly off the road
why don't the police see the bad driving i see every day, i went to Bristol yesterday, on the M5, frightening. I was doing 80, and loonies came past me bumper to bumper, at a much higher speed.”
by daveofglos
Saturday, February 09 2013, 12:39PM
“Reposted - first version didn't appear:
Why do you keep repeating news articles on this website. This was discussed yesterday - refer http://tinyurl.com/ankmoqe
I will repeat what I said then since it's not the weather that causes accidents:
"The "sudden hail storm" DIDN'T cause the accident - it was bad DRIVING that must be blamed. Cars don't suddenly flip over when it rains, for goodness sake!"
I will also repeat the link I gave to a website showing a photo of the crash - unlike this one:
http://tinyurl.com/badtxln”