Transport and Logistics Network
An impatient driver tried to undertake a lorry at speed using just a tiny layby on the A50 near Derby.[1] Footage captured by the HGV driver showed an Audi being driven by Karanveer Thind attempting to carry out what the judge called “a highly-dangerou…
Every week at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court[1] the cases of drivers who have broken the law on our roads are dealt with. Their offences are usually decided in their absences and the amount of money they are issued to pay in fines, costs and mo…
Woman driver taken by ambulance to Royal Stoke University Hospital
West Midlands Ambulance Service have confirmed they have taken a woman driver with minor injuries to the Royal Stoke University Hospital and a second patient was assessed and found to h…
New state-of-the-art speed cameras that busted more than 3,200 motorists in two weeks during a trial could be coming to Burton and South Derbyshire.
Not needing any painted road lines to operate, the bi-directional devices can log any speed above the l…
High-tech speed cameras which caught out over 3,200 drivers in a two-week spell could come to the Potteries. The bi-directional cameras – which don’t require any painted lines on the road – are able to record excess speed in both directions.
A trial ha…
Two weeks of rolling road closures[1] will start this week at a busy Leicester junction. The closures are to allow for resurfacing work to take place at the city’s A50/Fiveways junction, which links Blackbird Road, Woodgate, Fosse Road North, Groby Roa…
Boosting road safety near schools, improving junctions and removing dangers to pedestrians and drivers will be the focus of £14m of transport spending in Stoke-on-Trent.
Among the schemes earmarked for approval are safety traffic calming measures on En…
The A515 in Derbyshire is shut both ways this afternoon (Thursday, July 27) following a collision. According to traffic reports the crash involved a lorry.
Traffic monitoring service Inrix first reported the incident at shortly after 1pm. It said the c…
Police[1] caught more than 70 speeding motorists on the A50[2] during a summer-long crackdown. Road policing cops teamed up with camera van operatives for the operation in Uttoxeter[3] – where the fastest recorded speed was 96mph.
It comes as part of a…
A funeral fund has been set up to raise money for the family of a ‘loving husband and caring father’ killed in a motorcycle crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent.
Trucker Jason Wysoczan[1], 35, was confirmed dead at the scene in Longton[2] despite the eff…