The death toll from the ad weather has now risen to six.
The incident happened at around 1.20pm yesterday A man and a woman have died after their car plunged off a bridge during stormy weather near Skipton in North Yorkshire. Yesterday afternoon at around 1.20pm, the man and the woman in their 70s, were in a red Vauxhall Grandland that collided with a bridge barrier on the A629 Western Bypass and fell at least 10 metres.
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