A man died after falling from a road bridge, police can now reveal.

The victim died at the scene after he plunged from the bridge going over the A2 Jubilee Way at Dover yesterday evening.

A police spokesman said: "Kent Police was called at 6.15pm on Wednesday, April 25, to reports a man had fallen from a road bridge in Upper Road, Dover.

"Officers are not treating the death as suspicious and a report is being prepared for the coroner."

Officers and the South East Coast Ambulance Service attended.

Police promptly sealed off both ends of Upper Road to traffic and pedestrians.

When the incident was reported yesterday it had not yet been confirmed whether or not the victim had survived.

The tragedy had happened when the dual carriageway remained shut following a four-vehicle crash a couple of hours earlier.

It happened a few hundred yards south of the bridge and involved one lorry and three cars.

Kent Police were called to this at 3.54pm.

Officers along with Kent Fire and Rescue Service and the South East Coast Ambulance Service attended the scene where injuries were reported.

The road was closed while vehicles were recovered, leading to traffic holdups and car, van and lorry drivers trying to find alternative routes.

Vehicles heading for Dover Eastern Docks and the town centre formed a long queue up Castle Hill Road, for example.

Police now say that the tragedy lead to Jubliee Way having to be closed in both directions for longer and the route was not reopened until 9.45pm.