LONDON (Sputnik) – Four people were killed and nearly 50 injured in two separate motorway crashes in Britain on Saturday.
One person died and nearly 50 people sustained injures in a major pile-up involving 40 vehicles in the town of Bicester in northeastern Oxfordshire, media reported.
"One person sadly died at the scene, one person sustained life-threatening injuries, six people were seriously injured and approximately 35 to 45 people have minor injuries," a police spokesman said, as quoted by The Daily Mail newspaper.
In a separate crash three people were killed when a double-decker coach collided with a broken down vehicle car on a motorway in Flitwick, Bedfordshire, reports said.
Weather conditions were foggy, media reported.