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A terrifying incident on the M42 left a campervan driver screaming in pain after a large piece of metal crashed through his windscreen and impaled him. The object, believed to be a kingpin lock from a lorry, narrowly missed Chris Benn’s face as he inst…
Part of the M42 in Warwickshire has been closed because of a lorry fire.National Highways said it was affecting a southbound section between junction 10 for Tamworth and nine for the M6 Toll.It said the closure had caused congestion of more than two mi…
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A woman was taken to hospital after a crash that closed part of the M6[1] for several hours last night. The M6 Southbound at Junction 4 at Coleshill was closed from around 5.30pm until around 1am.
Earlier in the evening the slip road onto the M6 from t…
A lorry driver died when his vehicle left a road and hit a building, police said.It happened on the A7 at Scotsdyke, almost on the border with Scotland, at about 16:10 BST on Wednesday. The driver of the vehicle, a man in his 40s, was pronounced dead a…
It’s the worst of all deeds to take someone else’s life. For many culprits, living with that burden for the rest of their days is punishment enough, notwithstanding a significant period of imprisonment.
But some killers are truly evil and have no remor…
A driver has been charged following a collision which killed a seven-year-old boy.Pedestrian William Brown was pronounced dead at the scene in Folkestone, Kent, after an incident on the A259 Sandgate Esplanade on 6 December.Police said the incident had…
A police vehicle was rammed by thieves attempting to escape with £15,000 of vodka stolen from the trailer of a parked lorry at a motorway service station.The Warwickshire force said it was called to a report of two men acting suspiciously at Warwick Se…
A man has died after he was struck by two vehicles on Sunday.The crash took place on the A69 in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, at about 23:35 BST.A pedestrian, a man in his 50s, died at the scene in what police described as a “devastating incident”.A spo…
A lorry driver has been locally named as tributes have been paid following a fatal crash into a bridge on the M40.Named locally as Justin Buxton, the 50-year-old was driving a Volvo HGV lorry on the M40 near the Oxford services when he collided with a …