Simultaneous Closures in 2009
On 6 February 2009, during a week of snowfall throughout Britain, both Severn bridges were closed simultaneously due to ice falling from the bridge structure and damaging vehicles. On 22 December 2009 both bridges were closed again for the same reason.
This was only the third time that both bridges have been closed together, the first being due to a chemical fire in Avonmouth some years earlier.
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