TWO people have been killed in separate incidents after walking on to busy main roads in Oxfordshire.

Thames Valley Police are investigating both crashes which claimed the lives of a young man and a woman in her 60s.

The 20-year-old pedestrian was killed after walking on to an A34 slip road in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Firefighters were called to the crash on the southbound exit to the Hinksey Hill junction, at Redbridge Hollow at 1.48am, and had to free the man from underneath a blue Vauxhall Astra.

Despite treatment from paramedics, he died from his injuries at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital. Another person, believed to have been travelling in the car, was also taken to the hospital byambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.

Thames Valley Police have launched an investigation into the collision including how the man came to be walking on the slip road.

No arrests have been made in connection with the crash.

Meanwhile, a woman in her 60s was killed on the M40 after walking into the motorway to collect property that had fallen into the carriageway, police said.

She was killed at 9am on Saturday, after being struck by a silver Ford Fiesta on the southbound carriageway between junctions 12 and 11, close to the Oxfordshire-Warwickshire border.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

It is believed she was a passenger in a car which had stopped on the hard shoulder.

The southbound carriageway was closed after the crash, but reopened by 1pm.

Neither victim had been formally identified last night.

Anyone with information about either incident should contact Thames Valley Police on 08458 505505 or Crimestopppers on 0800 555111.