scene on the busy motorway bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\nGwent Police have now confirmed the crash involved a lorry and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian was taken to hospital where she remains. The extent of her injuries are unclear.<\/p>\n
A Gwent Police spokesperson said: “At around 6pm on Tuesday 22 April, we received a report of a road traffic collision heading west on the Prince of Wales Bridge between junctions 22 and 23.<\/p>\n
“Officers attended along with paramedics and the Air Ambulance Service.<\/p>\n
“The collision involved a pedestrian and a lorry. The pedestrian, a woman, was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
“The eastbound carriageway has now reopened to traffic, along with two lanes heading west. Diversions are also in place via the M48 Severn Bridge.”<\/p>\n
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The M4 Prince of Wales Bridge was closed following a crash (Image: National Highways )<\/p>\n
The collision was initially reported just after 6.15pm, as traffic monitoring site, Inrix, posted: “All traffic being temporarily held and stationery traffic due to accident on M4 Prince of Wales Bridge in both directions, from J22 M49 to J23 M48.<\/p>\n
“Prior to 18.20, all traffic held to assist with air ambulance.”<\/p>\n
The Severn Bridges account on X said: “The M4 Prince of Wales Bridge is closed in both directions following a serious incident.<\/p>\n
“Avon and Somerset Police are responding. Traffic being diverted via M48 Severn Crossing.”<\/p>\n
The Prince of Wales Bridge reopened just before 8.30pm, with all closures lifted, although residual traffic delays remained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bridge was closed to allow the air ambulance to landThe M4 Prince of Wales Bridge was closed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,9730,9731,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-42138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-m4-motorway","13":"tag-traffic-travel","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114383810022329064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138","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=42138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The M4 Prince of Wales Bridge was closed following a crash (Image: National Highways )<\/p>\n