Transport and Logistics Network
Leicester schoolchildren will be offered “counselling support” after a crash left several pupils injured[1]. The incident on Leicestershire’s A46 saw a bus and lorry collide[2] near Ratcliffe College.
Two members of staff and 37 pupils from St Paul’s C…
Witnesses are sought following a lorry which crashed into a ditch in Leicestershire[1]. One man was arrested following the incident which saw the A511 closed for several hours.
The incident happened at around 8.35am on Monday, October 21 when the flatb…
Leicestershire’s ‘most bashed bridge'[1] was hit once again today (Monday, November 11) after a lorry collided with it. The incident in Hinckley[2] caused traffic disruption and lengthy delays for drivers on surrounding routes.
First reports of the col…
Charles Wilkinson gave evidence on Tuesday and said the cyclist, Andrew Down, was not visible until the instant before impact because of blind spots on his vehicle.
Retired Essex police chief inspector Andrew Down, who lived in Felixstowe, died from hi…
A driver who died in a crash with a lorry in Dumfries and Galloway has been named by police. Archie Williams, 23, was driving a BMW when he was fatally injured in Lockerbie on Tuesday 29 October. The crash, which also involved an articulated lorry, hap…
A traffic diversion is in place due to a closure on the A1 in Cambridgeshire today (Friday, November 1). A lorry has left the carriageway and overturned in a field between Wansford and Chesterton Junction.Police, paramedics and firefighters are at the …
A main road[1] near a Derbyshire[2] town remains closed seven hours after a serious collision involving a car and a lorry. Officers were called to the A444 between Overseal[3] and Acresford, on the Derbyshire/Leicestershire border south of Swadlincote[…
A bridge which previously held the title for Britain’s most bashed has been hit again by a lorry.The A5 Watling Street bridge in Hinckley was closed in both directions after a lorry crashed into the railway bridge on Monday morning and badly damaged it…
Paul Miles is following in the wake of narrowboating pioneer LTC Rolt, retracing a journey he made – and wrote about – more than 80 years ago, reflecting on how England has changed, and considering why so many people still find pleasure on the country’…
A woman who had already been banned from driving three times crashed into another car[1] while driving home from the pub. Amanda Shelton had met with a friend and had two glasses of wine before the collision took place.
Shelton, of Leicester Road, Whit…