A salt truck ran off the road and overturned on the A76 in the Scottish village of Mennock, about 37 miles southeast of Glasgow, the Dumfries and Galloway Police Department reported.

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At a Glance

Hundreds have lost power because of fallen trees.Roads and bridges are closed.The storm is expected to cause headaches in western Europe beginning Monday.

Snow that fell overnight across parts of the United Kingdom was the first blow of a severe storm that knocked down trees, blocked roads and crushed cars.

The snow fell mostly in Scotland and Ireland and in the Midlands of England.

A salt spreading truck overturned about 8:20 a.m. Sunday on the A76 in the Scottish village of Mennock, about 37 miles southeast of Glasgow, the Dumfries and Galloway Police Department reported. The truck’s driver suffered minor injuries.

The A82 north of Tyndrum, near Crianlarich in Stirling, was closed, the BBC reported.

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High winds with gusts over 60 mph were causing problems in southern England.

The Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford Crossing was closed about 9:30 a.m. Sunday because of strong winds. Cars were, Essex Live reported.

The bridge at the Sheppey Crossing was also closed for about two hours because of the winds.

Hundreds of trains were canceled after the winds and into overhead wires.

The strong winds tore the roof off a Tesco Extra supermarket in Thanet, Kent. In Swanscombe, Kent, a building had to be evacuated when its roof was torn off by the winds, the Daily Mail reported. A cafe roof in London collapsed.

In Norfolk, a man was injured when the wind ripped a sign off a shop. The man was taken to a hospital, the Daily Mail reported. Also in Norfolk, Queen Elizabeth's estate at Sandringham lost power when trees fell over high-voltage lines.

In the southwest, Devon and Cornwall police reported an "" about trees across roads.

Hundreds of homes were without power in Wales, and at least eight garages, the BBC reported.

Later Sunday, the storm began causing problems on the European continent.

In Germany, where wind gusts up to 90 mph were expected, Deutsche Bahn halted long-distance and some regional train traffic in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia because several lines have been blocked by trees falling on tracks, the Associated Press reported.

In the city of Duisburg in western Germany, a dockside loading , Deutsche Welle reported.

The report also said a tree had fallen on a house in Frankfurt and on rail lines near Mannheim and Stuttgart.