Two men arrested after fatal M40 Oxfordshire crash
The stretch of motorway, which passes through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, was closed for most of Tuesday and reopened at about 18:10, National Highways said.Richard Thorpe, of Thames Valley Police's Roads Policing Unit, asked anyone who might have seen the crash or the BMW before it happened to contact officers.
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