Transport and Logistics Network
Plans for a new service station in a Nottinghamshire village are set to be approved despite major opposition from locals. Venari Land Limited wants to build a petrol station and drive-thru at the A46/A606 Melton Road roundabout in Hickling.
Plans befor…
A man has died as a result of a road traffic collision in Nottinghamshire. [1]
Emergency services were called to the A614 Ollerton Road at 6.32 am this morning (Monday) after a serious collision involving a car and a lorry.
The driver of the car, a ma…
Two awful rape cases were heard in court this month – both unconnected – involving attacks on strangers. One concerned the prosecution of rapist Andre Ivanov, who was just 18 years old when he targeted his victim as she walked alone in Newark.
She esca…
A lorry driver who was “vulnerable to falling asleep” on familiar roads has been jailed for seven years for killing an off-duty police officer in a crash.
Robert Harrison, 38, slept between five and six hours a night and needed “strong doses of caffei…
A lorry carrying fairground rides was stopped on the M1 and found by police[1] to have a number of issues. Nottinghamshire’s Roads Policing Unit checked out the vehicle after it was spotted by their counterparts from Derbyshire.
The large unit, describ…
Just before 7am today (July 12), officers responded to reports of a four-vehicle crash on the A11 near the Thickthorn roundabout.
The four vehicles were a lorry, a van and two cars.
A woman in her 20s was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after b…
A disqualified driver fled the scene of a four-vehicle collision which killed a young man[1] and seriously injured two others. Nathan Aitchison was then discovered hiding in a loft a day after the fatal crash in Nottinghamshire last year.
The 38-year-o…
A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital following a crash with a lorry at a busy crossroads in Mansfield[1]. Nottinghamshire Police[2] were called to the collision at the A60 junction with the A617 on Wednesday morning, July 12[3].
In an update just …
This month saw a jury return guilty verdicts on eight defendants in one of the longest running trials in British history. The victim, Michael Anton O’Connor, was not the intended target of an armed hit in Pitcairn Close, The Meadows, Nottingham Crown C…
Bicycle rider injured in lorry crash
A bicycle rider has been left with several injuries in a crash with a lorry.
Nottinghamshire Police were initially called to the collision at 12pm on Saturday (June 17).
A spokesman for the force said the bicycle ri…