A 29-YEAR-OLD has died after his Vauxhall Astra came off the M40 this morning. 

It happened at about 5.15am between Lewknor and Milton Common.

The man was killed after the vehicle he was driving came off the northbound carriageway and through a fence hedgerow into a field.

The M40 was closed northbound between junction 6 at Watlington and junction 8 at Oxford for an investigation.