A person has died in a crash on the M5 near Quedgeley in Gloucester.
Two cars crashed on the northbound carriageway between junctions 12 and 11A just after 8am Gloucestershire Police said.
The air ambulance attended but one person was declared dead a short time later, the force said.
The other driver was taken to hospital with non-serious injuries.
The northbound carriageway remains closed and diversions are in place.
The southbound road was shut but has since reopened.
It comes after six people were killed during a horror night on UK roads over New Year.
Three British Airways staff - two men, aged 23 and 25, and a 20-year-old woman - were killed were killed when their car collided with an HGV in Stanwell, Surrey, just before midnight.
A fourth BA staff member involved in the collision, a 25 year-old woman, was left fighting for her life.
A 62-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run in Cannock, West Midlands, on New Year's Eve when a driver smashed into her mobility scooter at 6.30pm on December 31.
A 27-year-old man, who is from Cannock, was arrested in the Hednesford area at 2.45am on New Year's Day on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
Minutes into the new year, in the West Midlands, a 37-year-old died after crashing into a tree.
Meanwhile in Manchester, a 57-year-old man died and four others were seriously injured when a Mercedes crashed into a Skoda Octavia just before 3.30am on January 1.
