A CAR overturned on the M42 as drivers faced a slippery start to Bank Holiday Monday.
This picture supplied by Highways England shows the overturned car righted and brought to the hard shoulder between junctions one and two of the M42 this morning.
Central Motorway Police Group said on Twitter: “Very VERY wet out there today, officers already at the first collision on the M42 J1, please take care and reduce speed in poor conditions.”
David Harford, a community first responder for the West Midlands Ambulance Service, said there was ‘considerable surface flooding’ on the B4211 between Guarlford and Upton.
Malvern police advised people to drive more slowly, put their headlights on and drive more slowly during the wet weather.
A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said:” It is extremely wet out there this morning, please take care if you are driving as the roads will be slippy.”
The Met Office says Bank Holiday Monday is looking largely cloudy and damp with outbreaks of rain, the heaviest and most persistent during this morning.
The conditions then gradually becoming drier and brighter from the west this afternoon with some late sunny spells possible.
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