Transport and Logistics Network
Here are the latest cases from the region’s courts:
NEWCASTLE: Drink-driver Bradley Woolridge has been banned from the roads for 12 months. The 21-year-old was stopped driving a Ford Transit after pulling into the Shell garage, on Talke Road, in Newcas…
A lorry driver was caught scrolling through TikTok while behind the wheel of a HGV. The man was found out thanks to an undercover police operation on the M6.Staffordshire[1] Police – in partnership with National Highways – carried out Operation Tramlin…
A lorry driver was caught by undercover police scrolling through TikTok while driving on the M6 in Staffordshire. Officers also saw the man watching a video during a five-day crackdown on dangerous driving habits.Staffordshire Police – in partnership w…
A lorry driver was caught scrolling on TikTok while on the motorway.The driver was spotted swerving across lanes on the M6 Toll, near Cannock, during an undercover operation by Staffordshire Police to target dangerous driving.During the operation the f…
A crash has ‘blocked’ one of Stoke-on-Trent’s busiest roads. The collision happened at the junction of the A53 Leek New Road and Baddeley Green Lane, in Baddeley Green[1].
Pictures from the scene show a white van and a red Mini in collision at the junc…
A lorry has had to be hauled out of a field after a smash between three HGVs and a coach shut the A50. The eastbound carriageway between Blythe Bridge[1] and Uttoxeter[2] remains closed this morning – more than 10 hours since the smash.
Police were cal…
London[1] commuters battled to work through snow[2] on Tuesday morning as cold weather grips the UK.A heavy flurry of snow fell in the capital as health chiefs issued a cold weather alert for the city and much of the rest of the country. Mayor Sadiq Kh…
Crews from Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service [1]were called to the incident on the M6 at junction 13.
It came after a station manager had spotted the incident while on his way to work where the trailer, which contained five bulls, had overturned.
F…
A schoolgirl was injured after being hit by a car in a Tamworth[1] street. The incident took place in Quarry Hill in Wilnecote on Friday (November 8).
The 15-year-old girl was a pedestrian, who is believed to have just finished school, when she was the…
A motorcyclist was killed in a crash after coming off his bike in an earlier collision. The victim, a man in his 20s, was fatally struck by a Scania HGV which also hit a Vauxhall.It happened on the A5 in Tamworth[1] after the Yamaha bike had collided w…