Police say a fatal accident in the early hours of yesterday was not as a result of a police chase. Tragically a man aged in his 20s died after a car entered the River Avon in Bristol.
Emergency services responded after the vehicle went through railings alongside the river in York Road, Bedminster, and entered the water.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Constabulary told Bristol Live: "We can confirm that the mandatory IOPC referral is a result of police being in the proximity at the time of the incident. There was no police pursuit."