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Drivers may soon be liable for the cost of damage to a key bridge as HGVs ignore weight restrictions on the M48 Severn Bridge.
Councils and local authorities are advocating for tougher penalties due to frequent breaches of the bridge’s weight limits. T…
HGVs have been caught breaching major weight restrictions in place on the M48 Severn Bridge.
14:00, 17 Jun 2025
Drivers in England warned rule motorists regularly break will now be ‘policed’
Drivers could be forced to pay for HGV damage on a major br…
10 hours agoChloe AslettBBC News, YorkshireFacebookA teenager was killed in a motorway crash after a car driven by his brother spun out of control and hit a tree, an inquest has heard.Patrick Mongan, 18, and his sibling John, 19, were travelling in an …
The switch could make paying a penalty fare considerably easier
13:31, 27 May 2025
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced a shake-up of their payments system(Image: Derby Telegraph)
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)…
Thames Valley Police caught the driver during a road safety operation on May 1, along the M4 near Reading.
The crackdown, which focused on HGV and LGV safety, was carried out with the DVSA and Thames Valley Police’s Commercial Vehicle Unit.
A total of …
A coroner has called into question not having a mandatory eye test for everyone who wants to drive at 70. An inquest into the deaths of four people killed by drivers with failing eyesight has found enforcement of visual legal standards for motorists is…
A truck with a cracked windscreen and loose scaffolding equipment was seized by police on the M5. Gloucestershire Police’s Roads Police Unit and the Driving Standards Agency stopped the vehicle on the motorway in Gloucestershire.Officers found the driv…
A truck with a cracked windscreen and loose scaffolding equipment was seized by police on the M5. Gloucestershire Police’s Roads Police Unit and the Driving Standards Agency stopped the vehicle on the motorway in Gloucestershire.
Officers found the dri…
Officers from Dorset Police’s roads traffic team targeted the county’s busiest roads during an operation to highlight unsecure loads
Since January 2024, police received over 1000 emergency calls of items blocking Dorset’s major roads, which had been di…
Adams Morey, a DAF dealer group and part of the Greenhous Group, has opened the new 1.6-acre site with an adjacent 1.1-acre secure parking compound in Bridgwater.
It’s one of Adams Morey’s 14 locations throughout the South and South West of England and…