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Sutton-at-Hone: A225 Main Road blocked after serious accident

08:30, 30 August 2017

updated: 09:02, 30 August 2017

A man has died after falling from a bridge at Farningham Road railway station.

Police, British Transport Police, the ambulance service and air ambulance were called to the station at about 8am to reports a man had been seen "in a precarious position on a railway bridge".

But the man fell from the bridge and suffered fatal injuries.

The air ambulance was called but the man died at the scene. Picture: Del Cook
The air ambulance was called but the man died at the scene. Picture: Del Cook

He died at the scene.

A BTP spokesman said: "Officers are now working to identify the man and inform his family. This incident is not being treated as suspicious."

The railway bridge in South Darenth. Picture: Google.
The railway bridge in South Darenth. Picture: Google.

Station Road was closed in both directions and Main Road was blocked as well. Both roads had reopened by 11am.

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