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This afternoon, Joe-Lewis Tyler, 34, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for causing a fatal car crash at 90mph, which resulted in the deaths of three people, including a six-year-old boy.
The tragedy occurred in Spetchley, Worcester, in February when …
From the professional footballer whose career lies in tatters to a separate case of a sex worker’s killer bodyguards, these are the latest criminals from Birmingham and beyond to be sent to jail. This is our July 2024 roundup of offenders sentenced to …
Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster has outlined a 16-point plan to ‘reduce road deaths’ in Birmingham[1] and the wider West Midlands. Mr Foster vowed to do everything possible to reduce the number of road tragedies in the future.
His commitment…
The Ferrari Testarossa turns 40 this year.
For those who remember the wedge-shaped Italian supercar breaking onto the scene and setting petrolheads’ pulses racing, it probably doesn’t feel like four long decades ago.
And there are a number of other rec…
Firefighters freed a trapped lorry driver after a car transporter overturned on the M6 today, Thursday, July 25. The incident caused widespread motorway disruption for motorists with five-miles of tailbacks.
National Highways West Midlands said the lor…
A lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving following reports of multiple collisions in Stafford. Staffordshire Police were called to Lichfield Road on Monday evening (July 22) following reports of an HGV being involved in a number of col…
More than 53,000 incidents of drivers ignoring lane closed signs on smart motorways have been recorded since 2021, new research has found.
Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart, which conducted the study, said it demonstrates the Government must give “seri…
Two people were taken to hospital following a crash that has closed part of the A5 in Lichfield[1]. A woman was seriously injured in the ‘rollover’ smash, which involved a car towing a caravan.
Emergency services were called to the eastbound carriagewa…
Two lanes are currently blocked on the M42 northbound[1] after a lorry crash near Birmingham Airport. The collision between a lorry and a car happened this afternoon near J5, for Solihull, and J6 for BHX.
Traffic has built up between the junctions on t…
Watch as the lorry swerves into the path of another vehicle – watch video above.
A driver who was almost double the drug drive limit when he lost of control of his lorry and swerved into the path of another vehicle has been jailed.
Anthony Campbell was…