EASTER Saturday proved to be treacherous for motorists when an accident closed the A3 for several hours in the early evening.

A 73-year-old man, driving a Citroen, had to be taken to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth where he was treated for a shoulder injury, after his car left the road and collided with a 11,000-volt power cable on the northbound carriageway between the Liphook and Hindhead.

Hampshire Fire and Rescue, involving crews from Liphook, Haslemere and Cosham, were called to the accident spot at around 5.40pm. Southern Electric engineers arrived to make the power cable safe, completing repairs at 1.10am, on Easter Sunday morning.

An SSE spokesman said: “The car crashed into a low-voltage cable, which left four households in Church Road, Bramshott,ity that evening.”

Both the north and southbound lanes of the A3 were closed to motorists for several hours, as was the Hindhead tunnel.

The A3 southbound re-opened at 8pm, while one of the northbound lanes was re-opened at 9pm both lanes were only fully operational again at 3.25am, on Easter Sunday morning.

Earlier that afternoon, another accident on the A3 brought traffic to a halt, when two cars collided on the southbound carriageway just before the Liphook and Bramshott exit, at 12.40pm.

Emergency services were called but nobody was hurt and one southbound lane remained open to traffic.

Police were also called out to deal with several fallen trees across East Hampshire in the aftermath of Storm Katie on Sunday night, while the one pictured above, blocked part of the road near the Hollycombe Steam collection.