Strong winds and heavy rain battered Scotland and eastern England Thursday, disrupting rail and road traffic as northwestern Europe braced for heavy storms sweeping across the North Atlantic and North Sea.

A truck driver was killed in West Lothian, west of Edinburgh, when his truck overturned and struck other vehicles. Four others involved in the collision suffered minor injuries, Police Scotland said in a statement.

Farther south, England was facing the most serious coastal tidal surge in more than 60 years, the Environment Agency warned.

Residents in some towns and cities on the Norfolk coast were evacuating.

Snow sweeps through Glasgow, Scotland, on December 5.

(Source: CNN)