Three people were taken to hospital after two crashes took place on the M4 Prince of Wales bridge. The two collisions happened within two hours of each other on Wednesday, June 21, on both the eastbound and westbound carriageways and left the motorway closed with reports of heavily queuing traffic.
The first crash came at around 6.20pm, a spokesperson for Gwent Police has said, and involved a Citroen C4 and a Honda CRV. Officers attended the scene with paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service and WATOs (Welsh Assembly Traffic Officers).
A man and woman, both 69, were taken to hospital for treatment following the collision. A spokesperson from Gwent Police said: "We received a report of a road traffic collision on the M4, between junction 22 and 23, heading west, at around 6.20pm on Wednesday 21 June."
