Collapse blocks traffic on motorway in Buckinghamshire

Ambulance

Source: didbygraham

A man has died after a crane collapsed onto the M25 this morning.

Officers from Thames Valley Police were called to the scene at 9.21 this morning after a crane collapsed onto the motorway in Buckinghamshire between junctions 16 and 15.

The man is believed to have fallen from the crane when it collapsed and died at the scene.

The crane had been stationed in a crane depot alongside the motorway.

The incident caused tail backs of thirty minutes for traffic moving anti-clockwise around the London ring road.