A man has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a tractor tipped on to a motorway from a bridge following a crash.<\/p>\n
Kent police said they were called to reports of a single-vehicle collision on the A227 overbridge near Wrotham at 11.17am on Monday. A tractor became separated from its trailer before falling on to the central reservation between junctions 2 and 3 of the M20.<\/p>\n
Police earlier believed two vehicles were involved in the collision. They have called for witnesses and anyone with dashcam footage of the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s next of kin are aware of the incident and he remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital. Kent fire and rescue service and south east coast ambulance service also attended the incident, and remain at the scene, the force said.<\/p>\n
The M20 and the A227 remain closed while emergency services deal with the incident, with motorists advised to use alternative routes. Images and footage shared on social media showed a tractor upside down with railings bent in the central reservation.<\/p>\n
Large queues of vehicles were forming on either side of the bridge. South east coast ambulance service said it was called to reports of a collision involving a tractor and a lorry on the bridge at about 11.20am.<\/p>\n
Multiple crews, a critical care paramedic and the local air ambulance were sent to the scene. The driver of the tractor was airlifted to King\u2019s College hospital in London, the service said.<\/p>\n
National Highways said the M20 was expected to be closed in both directions between junctions 1 and 3 into Monday evening for emergency repairs and resurfacing, after damaged caused from the collision and a subsequent fuel spillage.<\/p>\n
Anyone with relevant information should contact police on the west Kent appeals line on 01622 604100, quoting reference 18-0475.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a tractor tipped on to a motorway from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-355417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115052508838471150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}