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It is not clear what can be done to make the motorway safer for drivers
Shannon Brown Reporter
15:27, 17 Oct 2025
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A car transporter carrying nine electric vehicles was just one of the many major incidents to take place on the M5(Image: …
On social media National Highways, external[1] said: “Long delays remain in the area but should now start to ease.”Thanks for your patience today whilst this incident was ongoing.”Devon and Cornwall Police said at about 21:20 its earlier message for re…
Rizwan Mehdi, 36, of Commercial Street, Brierfield, appeared at Burnley Crown Court on Wednesday (October 15), where he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
Kashif Mehdi, 42, of Montcliffe Crescent, Manchester, admitted perverting the …
Firefighters have released striking images revealing the full scale of destruction caused by a lorry blaze on the M5 this morning (Wednesday), which has triggered widespread traffic chaos throughout Devon.
The motorway remains shut northbound between j…
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M5 Northbound closed, severe delays due to recovery work and earlier lorry fire from J30 A376 Sidmouth Road (Exeter / Service Areas) to J29 A30 Honiton Road (Exeter / Honiton).
Congestion to J31 (Okehampton turn off), with queues …
A lorry fire has forced the closure of part of the M5 in Devon.The fire broke out on the northbound side of the motorway between junctions 30 and 29 in Exeter at about 11:35 BST, said Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.Firefighters issued a war…
Samuel Preece, of Worcester Road, was snapped speeding on November 2 last year.
Worcester magistrates heard that the 30-year-old was driving a Vauxhall on the M5, J6-4a Northbound, at a speed of more than 50mph when a temporary maximum speed restrictio…
Mihai Florescu, 39, from Plymouth, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene of a horror four-vehicle collision – which saw a man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving
17:46, 04 Oct 2025Updated 17:46, 04 Oct 2025
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A lorry and a car were involved in the crash, which took place near Droitwich on Friday afternoon (October 3).
Emergency services rushed to the scene, where paramedics found one woman had minor injuries.
She received some treatment but then declined fu…
The incidents took place near Gloucester Services on the Gloucestershire motorway
16:37, 03 Oct 2025Updated 16:49, 03 Oct 2025
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Stationary traffic on the M5 southbound near Gloucester Services after the incident(Image: National Highways)
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