Four crashes on road in 'treacherous' conditions

Cambridgeshire Police said four crashes happened on Forty Foot Bank on Friday morning

Early morning conditions on a Fenland road running alongside a waterway were described as "treacherous" by police, after drivers were involved in four separate crashes.

Cambridgeshire Police said they happened on Forty Foot Bank, near Chatteris, as the region experienced freezing temperatures overnight.

The road was closed until about 10:20 GMT after police said three vehicles separately crashed into a ditch, and another was involved in a "single-vehicle collision".

A Cambridgeshire County Council spokesperson said its gritters were out on the roads on Thursday night and that it would be "carrying out a full review" because of the collisions.

Police said the following incidents happened on the stretch of road:

• A car crashed into a ditch at about 07:20 near the junction for Benwick, with no injuries reported

• A motorcycle crashed into the same ditch, with the rider suffering minor injuries

• A van crashed into a ditch at about 08:20, and no injuries were reported

• A "single-vehicle collision" occurred at the Doddington end of the road, at 08:55

A council spokesperson said its gritting lorries were out at 19:00 GMT and again in the morning.

They said: "Our gritters are fitted with technology which shows where they went, when, and the spreading activity carried out.

"We are also speaking with the gritter drivers on that route."