Police told drivers to leave their cars ‘if you want to stay alive’ as a van fire sparked a wildfire by a dual carriageway this afternoon.
Traffic came to a halt and drivers were ordered to the side of the road after flames from the van ignited ‘tinderbox bracken’ by the westbound A31 near the New Forest in Hampshire.
A policewoman told drivers to get out of their cars and move to the central reservation next to the road ‘if you want to stay alive’.
Later a firefighter was overheard telling a police officer: ‘We want all the cars and people off the
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