THE person who died in a collision on the M40 on Friday evening has been identified as Kathryn Elizabeth Light.

The 47-year-old, from Curzon Road, London, was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident.

The crash is thought to have involved a car and a lorry on the hard shoulder of the motorway, directly beneath junction four, Handy Cross. Emergency services were at the scene at about 5pm.

This was the most serious of three accidents to hit the South Bucks stretch of the motorway during the Friday evening rush hour.

It came just a day after a 39-year-old woman from Oxfordshire died from head injuries sustained in another M40 crash on Thursday morning. Her identity has not yet been released.