incoming

In dense fog at about 10.25 p.m. on the night of October 25, two tank barges carrying petroleum … missed the entrance to the docks at Sharpness and were carried up the River Severn by the incoming tide. They collided with one of the piers of the Severn Bridge, carrying the Berkeley Road-Lydney branch of the Western Region, and as a result of the collision both tankers blew up.

The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.