STORM Henk has claimed its first victim after a tree crushed a car in 94mph winds.
Emergency services including an air ambulance scrambled to the A433 in Gloucestershire after a tree toppled onto two cars on Tuesday.
AlamyA person has died after a tree toppled onto a car during Storm Henk[/caption]
PAStorm Henk toppled a tree onto a car in Bromley, Kent yesterday[/caption]
BirminghamLive/BPMA man rescued a child from a submerged car in Birmingham[/caption]
ROB WELHAM / McLELLANThe storm brought down a wooden fence in a Sainsbury’s car park in Hornchurch, east London[/caption]
The occupant of one of the cars was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident eight miles north of Malmesbury.
The A433 is now closed in both directions between Cirencester and Tetbury.
Yesterday Gloucestershire Police said: “Road closures are in place after a tree fell on a car on the Tetbury Road near Kemble earlier today, Tuesday 2 January.
“Emergency services were called at around 3.15pm with reports of a large fallen tree on the A433 Tetbury Road near the junction with the A429, between Tetbury and Cirencester.
“Motorists are advised that the road is expected to remain closed overnight and into tomorrow.
“No further information is available at this time.”
Brits have been told not to leave home during Storm Henk, with forecasters issuing a danger to life warning.
Paramedics and firefighters scrambled to a road in Orpington, south London after a woman was crushed by a tree.
The London Fire Brigade is now urging people in the capital to stay indoors and to only travel if they need to.
In Birmingham a brave passer-by rescued a three-year-old child and a driver from a car submerged in flood water.
The hero then secured the vehicle to the bridge to prevent it being washed away, local cops said.
A father also rescued an unresponsive woman from the freezing River Severn in Worcester after spotting her “floating like a mannequin”,
Colin McGarva, 31, waded into the fast-flowing river to save the motionless 50-year-old woman.
Families were even forced to abandon their caravans in the Billing Aquadrome in Northampton, this afternoon, thanks to the torrid conditions.
PAA fallen tree in Forest Hill, London[/caption]
George Cracknell WrightThe storm toppled scaffolding in Greenwich, south east London[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
