FIREFIGHTERS tackled a car on fire on the M4.

At 6.56pm last night firefighters from Yate and Wiltshire Fire Stations were called to a car on fire on the M4 eastbound carriageway between junctions 18 and 17.

On arrival, fire crews found the car to be well alight and in breathing apparatus used a high pressure hose reel to tackle it.

Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire of which the cause is thought to be accidental.