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A major stretch of the A66 was closed for hours in County Durham after a lorry burst into flames on the carriageway.
Emergency services were called to lorry fire on the A66 at around 4pm on Tuesday. The busy route between the A67 near Bowes and the A1M…
APPEAL have been made to drivers on the A66 across three counties to take extra care as travellers and visitors make their way to the traditional Appleby horse fair.A horse died and three people were injured after a crash on Monday when a bow top van p…
The A66 has been shut in both directions due to a vehicle fire.
The fire is in a large goods vehicle carrying waste batteries.
The vehicle has stopped in a lay-by near Gilling West.
The road is shut between Scotch Corner and Bowes, with police saying…
POLICE: Driver stoppedCumbria Police have stopped a driver this week for using his mobile phone whilst driving.The officers stopped the person who was driving a HGV on the A66 area near Appleby in Eden.A tweet from Cumbria Police read: “This articulate…
A DRIVER was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a van is thought to have collided with a tree in the early hours of this morning.The serious collision happened near Thorpe Thewles, between Stockton and Sedgefield, in the early hours of Frida…
The A66 between the Brougham turn off (B6412) and the Temple Sowerby turn off is currently closed due to an accident.
Both ways are shut with heavy traffic.
The road was closed at 4pm and it is not yet known when it will reopen.
Police were called at 1…
The A66 at Scotch Corner.
The A66 trans-Pennine route has reopened westbound following a HGV fire this morning.
Fire crews from Colburn, Richmond and Darlington were called just before 5am to the incident near Scotch Corner.
The fire was in the cab …
A TRUCKER who crashed his lorry on the A66 in Cumbria as he transported a cargo of cannabis worth £630,000 has been jailed for four years and two months.Valerijus Petrusevas, 41, claimed he knew nothing about the drugs found in his lorry’s traile…
A TRUCK driver accused of illegally transporting cannabis worth £630,000 through Cumbria told a jury: “I am not a drug dealer.”Valerijus Petrusevas, 41, protested his innocence as he was being questioned by prosecutor Tim Evans at Carlisle Crown C…
All motorway traffic was held after the crash at around 11.15am, whilst police, ambulance and fire crews attended the scene between junctions 39 (Shap) and 40 (Penrith).
The southbound carriageway was closed briefly due to smoke from the lorry fire…