Runaway truck kills four and injures more in Somerset

Four people have died and several are injured after a tipper truck collided with vehicles and pedestrians on a hill, police said.

Police are investigating the incident which happened in Lansdown Lane in Upper Weston in Bath, Somerset, England just after 4pm today.

A tipper truck carrying aggregate collided with a number of vehicles and two pedestrians as it travelled down the hill.

Early witness accounts suggest the driver was trying to avert an accident, an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said.

“Four people have died at the scene and there are several people injured,” the force spokesman said.

“Casualties are being taken to the Royal United Hospital in Bath and Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

A spokeswoman for South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said: ``We can confirm that we have taken one patient by air ambulance to Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

“Three patients have been taken to the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

“There were two air ambulances at the scene, five ambulances, three paramedics in rapid response vehicles and a BASICS doctor.”