A black fog... then a river of flames: Did rugby club fireworks cause M5 catastrophe that killed seven and injured 51?

Police fear the M5 disaster that claimed the lives of at least seven people may have been caused by heavy smoke drifting on to the motorway from a nearby fireworks display.

More than 30 cars and six articulated lorries cannoned into each other after ‘a black fog as thick as emulsion suddenly descended’ on Friday night.


An intense fireball engulfed many of the vehicles in one of the worst road crashes in living memory. It left 51 people, many of them children, injured and a trail of twisting, charred wreckage stretching for hundreds of yards.   More Read