Avon and Somerset Police <\/a>said: “Emergency services are at the scene of a serious injury collision on Brunel Way in Bristol. It was called in just before 12.20pm on Saturday 11 October.<\/p>\n“Three people have gone to hospital. Two went by ambulance. One of these has injuries currently described as potentially life-threatening, the other has serious injuries not believed to be either life-threatening or life-changing.<\/p>\n
“The collision between two cars and a van has blocked the road. The A3029 Brunel Way is closed between its junctions with the A370 and Bristol Gate while investigations are completed and pending recovery of the vehicles.<\/p>\n
“Road closures are in place at the junctions with Ashmead Way, Cabot Way, Humphrey Davy Way and Mcadam Way.”<\/p>\n
Police went on to confirm a second crash nearby: “There has been a further collision on nearby Ashton Road, involving a car and a motorcycle. Thankfully the injuries in this second collision are not currently believed to be either life-threatening or life-changing.<\/p>\n
“Motorists are asked to avoid the area.”<\/p>\n
Anyone who saw the collision on Brunel Way or has any dashcam footage which could help the investigation is asked to call 101 and quote the reference number 5225285521.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person’s injuries are said to be “potentially life-threatening”Fire engines and police cars spotted on Plimsoll Swing Bridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[9312,799,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-492725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","10":"tag-bristol-city-centre","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115359375183021665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492725","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=492725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Fire engines and police cars spotted on Plimsoll Swing Bridge at around 3pm today (Saturday, October 11).(Image: Ellie Kendall\/Reach PLC)<\/p>\n