Transport and Logistics Network
10 hours agoSteve Hubbard/BBCA major road has reopened following an incident involving a gas tanker in which a man was injured.The east and westbound carriageways of the A45 between Riverside and Barnes Meadow Interchange near Northampton were closed a…
Officers pursued, stung and boxed in a car on the motorway, which resulted in the seizure of 36kg of cocaine, last month
12:20, 13 May 2025Updated 12:25, 13 May 2025
This pursuit by the Interceptors team ended in Bearwood and followed a violent car-j…
Staycationers say a Spitfire plane misfired above a caravan park, lost altitude and narrowly missed trees moments before crash landing in a field.
The historic aircraft, which had two people onboard, remains in the mustard field today after dramaticall…
The new vans have helped to catch speeding drivers across the West Midlands
05:30, 12 Apr 2025
Head of the roads policing unit, Supt Gareth Mason, alongside PCC Simon Foster (Image: West Midlands Police)
The number of speed enforce…
An officer has been taken to hospital after a police van overturned whilst on a 999 emergency.
West Midlands Police said the van struck a car at the junction of Coventry Road and Forest Road shortly before 2.50pm today.
An officer was taken to hospita…
The number of speed camera vans in the West Midlands has doubled from four to eight
08:41, 08 Apr 2025Updated 08:52, 08 Apr 2025
A speed enforcement van (Image: West Midlands Police)
Figures have shown some of the worst cases of sp…
A Midlands driver who killed a ‘beloved’ mum on the M40[1] has been jailed. Akashdeep Singh had been disqualified from driving at the time of the crash, with his actions slammed as ‘stupid, reckless and selfish.’
Singh, 24, was driving a Peugeot Boxer[…
There are long delays on the M6 near Birmingham after a lorry shed a load of gravel on the highway.
Two out of four lanes of the M6[1] were closed between junction 5 for Castle Bromwich and junction 4A the M42 link road on the southbound carriageway.
T…
30 minutes agoEleanor LawsonBBC News, West MidlandsFamilyFour teenagers have been jailed over a fatal crash in Staffordshire during a race between two stolen cars that killed a retired teacher on New Year’s Day. Joan Hill, 73, died on the A5 near Longf…
Joan Hill, 73, died as her car was struck by the driver of a stolen Ford Kuga who was racing another teenager
19:55, 27 Mar 2025
The two drivers were racing when Joan Hill was killed in a fatal collision. (Image: Staffs Police)
Four teens have been j…