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January 21: live traffic and weather news as rain causes chaos across Bournemouth

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  • Heavy rain is forecast for tonight from 6pm until 9pm, with light rain to follow until 11pm.
  • Dorset County Council is sending its gritters out to treat major roads from 12.30am.
  • Temperatures are set to feel like -2C between 7am and 10am tomorrow with 4C predicted for the daytime.
  • Firefighters had to rescue motorists from floodwater at Colehill and Corfe Mullen today.
  • The A338 was blocked between Cooper Dean and Boscombe due to an accident on the northbound carriageway
  • Flooding at Wallisdown caused long delays
  • There were also accidents at Upton and Piddlehinton
  • An earlier traffic light failure at Stony Lane caused delays but they are back up and running again now.

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