Icy conditions overnight and into this morning continue to cause disruption on roads around Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
Pembrokeshire County Council teams continued to grit overnight, treating road surfaces, focusing on primary and secondary routes, key junctions and responding to emergency services requests.
Dyfed-Powys Police have reported that the old A477 between Red Roses and Llanddowror is currently closed due to a road traffic collision. Please avoid the area and find an alternative route.
The local authority has stated that a number of schools will be closed today across Pembrokeshire, including - Coastlands School in St Ishmaels (due to snow conditions);
Cosheston VC School (due to inaccessible road conditions); Mary Immaculate School in Haverfordwest (Approach to school unsafe); Milford Haven Community Primary School (due to inaccessible road conditions); Monkton Priory Community Primary School (Paths at the school are iced over in places. All roads leading to school for the community are heavily iced over and have not been gritted); Neyland Community School (due to snow conditions); Portfield School in Haverfordwest (due to inaccessible road conditions); St Francis Catholic Primary School in Milford Haven (due to snow conditions).
St Florence Church in Wales VC School will be partially closed today due to inaccessible road conditions, with the school looking to re-open at 1 pm, weather conditions permitting; with Henry Tudor School in Pembroke also partially closed.
The site at Greenhill School in Tenby has been risk assessed this morning and will be open as normal.
The pathways for pupils to access school have been gritted and all pupils and staff have been asked to access the school buildings via these pathways.
Narberth Travel have given the following updates on bus timetables, with some not operating for the safety of drivers and passengers:
539 not operating - Skrinkle pupils use bus 540
540 not picking up in Manorbier, pupils to get to Skrinkle
208 not picking up in Manorbier, will turn around in Skrinkle
903 Not picking up Thomas Chapel, Valley Road, Creamston and Uzmaston
894 not operating
587 Not picking up in Angle, Route will start at Valero
662 - Not operating
589 No Fresh East pick up
586 Not picking up in Bosherston
530 Bus is stuck so now not operating
Pembrokeshire County Council provided the following update before midday: “The icy conditions continued throughout the night and will impact today.
“Our gritters are operating the primary and secondary routes. Teams have been working overnight to keep the road network open and we have used approximately 700 tons of salt on our road network since Friday evening.
“The weather conditions were exacerbated by a rain shower in the early hours of Sunday morning that caused the road surfaces to freeze which made conditions treacherous on smaller roads and estates.
“This has caused disruption to the morning commute and school closures.”
“Resources are stretched and our teams cannot grit all car parks so they will be focusing on busy areas and around vulnerable locations such as pavements.”
More information on these closures can be found at: https://www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/school-closures