A MAN has been arrested after throwing objects into traffic from a Newton Abbot over-bridge.

A section of the A380 was closed southbound this morning, Monday, October 6, after the man was seen atop the over-bridge at Penn Inn roundabout.

He was then seen throwing items off the bridge and into traffic below, police say.

Officers attended and engaged with him before he was brought to safety around 9.45am.

The man, in his 20s, of no fixed abode, Torquay, was arrested on suspicion of causing damage to road users.

He remains in custody.