Overview

• The M20 is closed both directions between Junctions 1 and 3 after a tractor plunged from an A227 overbridge, with one man airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
• Surrey Police is probing an early-morning M23 crash that killed a man in his 50s and has arrested a man in his 40s on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving while appealing for witnesses.
• National Highways completed emergency repairs to a faulty bridge joint on the Avonmouth Bridge on Sunday evening, reopening three lanes on the M5 after congestion stretched up to 14 miles.
• Kent Police, Surrey Police, fire crews, ambulance teams and National Highways traffic officers are coordinating scene response, recovery operations and forensic inquiries across multiple sites.
• Motorists are being directed along official diversion routes and advised to delay journeys or plan ahead as the motorway network endures sustained summer-peak pressure.