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A spokesperson for National Highways West Midlands wrote on social media platform X: “Lanes one and two (of three) are closed on the M42 northbound in Worcestershire, between J1, for Bromsgrove, and J2, Redditch, due to an overturned caravan.
“Vehicle …
The road has been closed for several hours
09:08, 13 Mar 2026Updated 09:13, 13 Mar 2026
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Tamworth Road, in Measham.(Image: Google)
A pedestrian has been taken to hospital[1] following a collision involving a lorry in a Leicestershire[2] vill…
A hunt to find a yob who was lobbing objects off a bridge over the M42 motorway aiming at cars has been launched by police
13:50, 24 Feb 2026
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A yob is said to have been throwing objects off a bridge over the M42 at junction 2, the turn off …
There have been miles of tailbacks and long delays on both carriageways of the M6 in Staffordshire[1] and Cheshire and now on the M42 in Warwickshire.
The first crash took place between Junction 15 for Stoke-on-Trent and Junction 14 for Stafford on the…
Warwickshire’s most notorious speed camera that caught almost 50,000 drivers has been revealed. Warwickshire Police was asked to identify the single speed camera site that snared the most speeding drivers in 2024.[1]
This was in a Freedom of Informatio…
During a week of action, officers driving an HGV stopped 72 vehicles after detecting driving offences such as using a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt on the M5, M42 and M54.
A West Mercia Police spokesperson said: “Last week we took part in Ope…
Data obtained by Parkers from National Highways has shown the shocking scale of motorway night closures afflicting British motorists. From the start of 2020 until the end of 2024, there were 277,653 closures affecting driver’s journeys, making them la…
Drivers are facing long delays on the M6 as several lanes are closed following a crash involving a lorry.Three out of four lanes have been shut on the northbound carriageway between junction seven, for Great Barr and junction eight, for the M5 after th…
A motorway in the region has been brought to a standstill.
Traffic[1] on the southbound section of the M5 near the West Midlands is currently being held.
Traffic[2] monitoring service Inrix says this is due to a crash.
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A lorry spilt its cargo of paint across the M42 motorway when it was involved in a crash.The collision happened at about 14:00 BST on the southbound carriageway between Solihull and Shirley, National Highways (NH) confirmed. The spillage initially saw …