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The coroner says the reason he chosen to drive five miles the wrong way on the motorway will ‘never be known’
Neil Shaw[1] Assistant Editor (Money and Lifestyle)
10:24, 18 Apr 2026Updated 10:24, 18 Apr 2026
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Aidan Walsh, 28, died after he…
The incident occurred at around 3pm on Friday, April 17 on the A419 northbound just before the Wanborough junction, according to police.
At around 5pm, the force confirmed that a driver of a vehicle involved in the crash was taken to hospital, adding t…
A driver’s motives for travelling five miles the wrong way down a motorway before a fatal head-on crash “will never be known”, a coroner has concluded.
Aidan Walsh had taken cocaine and smoked cannabis before inexplicably carrying out a three-point tur…
A motorcyclist has died after a crash involving another vehicle on an A-road in Gloucestershire.Emergency services were called to the A417 near Overton Farm, Maisemore, at about 15:50 BST due to a report of a crash involving a motorbike and a Ford Tran…
Members of the public and paramedics tried to save him
18:29, 17 Apr 2026
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The A417 near Maisemore(Image: Google Street View)
A motorcyclist from Gloucester has died following a crash with a van on an A-road near Maisemore.
Emergency service…
The incident was on the northbound carriageway at around 11am.
Two lanes were closed off on the motorway after a crash involving a car transporter and a van.
It was between J18, for Holmes Chapel and Middlewich, and J19, for Knutsford and Northwich.
A …
Drivers have been warned that a section of the A23 remains closed on Friday following a multi-vehicle crash which caused “serious injuries”.Emergency services responded to the incident, which included two cars and a lorry, on the key trunk road’s nort…
On December 18 2025, a roads policing officer sighted John James Withey, 44, driving a HGV on the M4 between junctions 16 and 15 near Swindon and Royal Wootton Bassett.
He was stopped at the DVSA Weighbridge at junction 15, and a roadside drugs wipe te…
A man in his 80s has died after being hit by a car at a motorway service station. He was struck by a blue Ford Explorer at the M3’s southbound Fleet services in Hampshire at about 12:44 BST on Thursday. The car also hit a woman in her 70s, who was seri…
A drink-driver who crashed on a busy West Midlands dual carriageway after carrying out a ‘highly dangerous manoeuvre’ has escaped jail.Ethan Gayle, who was driving a black Peugeot 208, undertook a car at ‘high speed’ before crashing into the back of a …