Woman dies after three-vehicle layby crash

Alex PopeBedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire
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Emergency services were called to the A10 on Monday morning

A woman in her 60s has died after being hit by a vehicle while she was out of her car in a layby.

Hertfordshire Police said it happened at about 08:50 GMT on Monday, on the A10 between Hertford and Broxbourne.

The force said it involved three vehicles — a grey Porsche Cayenne; a red Fiat 500, which the woman had been driving; and a white Volvo tipper lorry. The Fiat and the Volvo were both stationary.

The driver of the Porsche, a man in his 60s, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been bailed by police.

The force said the Fiat driver "was out of the vehicle at the time of the collision" and she died at the scene.

Her family was being supported by specially trained officers.

Det Con Lewis Stanley, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: "We are working to establish how the collision occurred and I want to hear from anybody who saw what happened, or the vehicles involved."

He appealed for anyone with information, including dashcam footage to email him quoting ISR 110 of 5 January.

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