She had been heading from Kent to Brighton to help her daughters after they were involved in a minor road accident on an icy road.

BBC: Sussex snow: Motorists stranded on A23

In Virginia, three people were killed, including a 22-year-old man who died Thursday after his vehicle ran off an icy road, went over an embankment and landed upside down in a creek.

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Firefighters cut free the driver from Attleborough trapped for over an hour in icy temperatures when his car came off the road at Deopham on Saturday.

BBC: Norfolk's icy roads: Firefighters rescue crash driver

And a 30-year-old man was seriously injured in an accident on an icy M18 near Doncaster, when his car collided with a road sign and overturned.

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The town of maybe a few hundred people is locked in a self-sustaining cycle of grief after a school bus slides off the road one morning, careens down a slope, and sinks in an icy lake.

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