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By Clare LissamanBBC News, West Midlands3 hours agoImage source, Warwickshire Police A lorry driver who admitted seriously injuring three members of a family when he hit their car on the hard shoulder has been jailed. One of them, a girl now 10, cannot…
A trucker has been jailed for just two-and-a-half years over a motorway crash which left a girl of eight with devastating injuries. She was left unable to “think, talk or walk” and will need lifetime care, police said, after his lorry ploughed into her…
The rules of the road are there to keep us safe but those who disregard them sometimes end up in court. Deadly collisions have occurred on our streets due to the careless or inconsiderate driving of some.
They’ve claimed the lives of others and in at l…
We were told they were the way to easing traffic on our roads. Miles of hard shoulders across the county were replaced with an active lane to help improve journey times and ease congestion after a trial on the M42 in 2006.
But by May of this year, 79 p…
A busy exit off the M42[1] in Warwickshire[2] was closed because of a police incident nearby. Motorists were unable to leave the northbound carriageway at Junction 9, for the M6 Toll / Curdworth, after a lorry and a car were in collision.
A man was tak…
A man was taken to hospital after a lorry and a car collided near a busy junction on the M42 in Warwickshire[1]. The incident forced a closure of the northbound exit at Junction 9, for the M6[2] Toll and Curdworth.
The closure caused long tailbacks str…
Police have appealed for information over a serious M42 crash[1] which left a woman with potentially life-changing injuries. The smash between a lorry and a van happened on the northbound carriageway near Birmingham Airport[2] at around 1.40pm today (J…
Emergency services have raced to the scene of a serious crash close to Birmigham Airport. An air ambulance has been scrambled to the scene on the M42 northbound, near J6, earlier this afternoon (July 25).
Police have closed a section of the major motor…
A woman has been airlifted to hospital after sustaining potentially life-changing injuries in an M42 crash[1]. The collision, between a lorry and a van, happened on the northbound carriageway near Birmingham Airport[2] at around 1.40pm today (July 25)….
An air ambulance is at the scene of a serious crash near Birmingham Airport.[1] The collision involving a HGV and a van happened on the M42[2] northbound, near J6, this afternoon, July 25.
Drivers are currently stuck in huge traffic[3] delays after eme…