Wednesday 19th December 1956
At least six people died and several others were injured in road accidents in thick fog. Most of England, south of a line from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Blackpool was shrouded in fog, with visibility in parts of East Anglia reduced to five yards (4.5 m) in places. In Bedfordshire two men in a van were killed when it crashed into a lorry. In Birmingham, a 16 year old girl, was killed when she was struck by a bus which mounted the pavement after colliding with a car. In Wales, forty-one miners on their way to work were taken to hospital when a double-decker bus overturned near Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorganshire. Ten were kept in for treatment.