Transport and Logistics Network
The death of a man who died in Barrow-upon-Trent on Wednesday is not being treated as suspicious by the police. Officers were called to Sinfin Lane yesterday at around 12.40pm and the road was closed to the public.
Officers were responding to a call re…
This new father was caught with a 15-inch long machete outside a takeaway in Derby city centre. When Ryan Hudson was asked to confirm who he was he gave them a false name – that of his brother.
The offence was committed shortly after the 26-year-old ha…
Traffic is disrupted in a Derby suburb this evening (Monday, December 12) after a piece of heavy machinery reportedly fell off the back of a lorry. A video taken by a resident shows the vehicle on its side in Riber Drive, Chellaston, at around 6pm.
It …
A man has been jailed after he attempted to burgle a house and broke into cars in the Quarndon and Kirk Langley areas of Derby. Lee Knowles attempted to break into a property in Skitteridge Wood Road in the early hours of 24 November.
He then went on t…
Fire crews battling a blaze on the M1 between J26 and J27 say they will be there “for some time”. The motorway is now shut for an eleven-mile stretch between J26 for the A610 at Nuthall and J28 for the A38 at South Normanton.
The blaze involved seven e…
Traffic police in Derbyshire were kept extremely busy day on Saturday, when they had to deal with a weapons incident, a lorry fire, a 120mph driver – and then a lengthy traffic jam on the A38 caused by a driver deciding to see how far he could drive ‘i…
A Toyota-led consortium has been awarded £11.3m in funding from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to develop a hydrogen variant of its Hilux pickup truck.
The hydrogen Hilux will be developed at Toyota’s Derbyshire vehicle p…
Plans to develop a prototype hydrogen fuel cell-powered version of the Toyota Hilux have taken a step forward after the firm secured investment to carry out the project at its plant in Burnaston, Derbyshire.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK (TMUK) will le…
A lorry has reportedly flipped over on the A38 this morning and traffic is building. There are serious delays on the A38 northbound near the Branston interchange and Derbyshire Live understands that emergency services are at the scene. The southbound s…
A Derby bridge which has been closed for urgent repair works has been protected with the same Derbyshire-made devices used to protect the public from terror attacks. Five SecuriPods, created by Ashbourne-based firm Securiscape, have blocked access to t…