A 38-year-old man has been arrested after handing himself in to police following an accident in which two cyclists were killed.
The man and woman were killed shortly before 3.50pm on Sunday before the driver of a Citroen car allegedly fled the scene in Hanham, near Bristol.
A spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset Police said: “A 38-year-old man who left the scene of the collision has handed himself in at a police station and has been arrested.
“The road currently remains closed and investigations continue.”
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: “The car was in collision with two cyclists. A man and a woman both died as a result of injuries sustained.”
Paramedics attended the scene to find the man and woman fatally injured.
“We took the call at 4pm reporting that a car collided with two cyclists, a male and a female,” a spokeswoman for Great Western Ambulance Service said.
“We sent an ambulance, paramedics, a rapid response vehicle and had an officer at the scene to liaise with the other services.
“But unfortunately both the patients were beyond help at the scene,” she added.
