Transport and Logistics Network
At 8.20am this morning, Tuesday, officers received reports that a white Fiat Punto had crashed into a barrier at Junction 1 of the M53 southbound.
Traffic feed INRIX confirmed the road was blocked for more than an hour.
A recent update says: “Sensors s…
Jane Louise Hickson, of Upton Drive in Upton, Chester, died following a crash between two vehicles on Liverpool Road on Sunday, November 5.
She was transported to the nearby Countess of Chester Hospital, where she passed away despite receiving treatmen…
By Arthur Parashar[1] Published: 14:12, 27 October 2023 | Updated: 14:58, 27 October 2023
A funeral has been held for a 15-year-old girl who tragically died in a school bus crash on a motorway last month. Jessica Baker,…
Jessica Baker, 15, was travelling on the coach carrying pupils to West Kirby Grammar School for Girls and Calday Grange Grammar School, which struck a reservation at junction five of the M53 and overturned, just after 8am on September 29.
The funer…
No one was wearing a seatbelt on a coach that crashed on a motorway and left a grammar school girl dead last month, a coroner has said.Jessica Baker, 15, was thrown from the vehicle and crushed underneath it after it veered off the carriageway, st…
By Eirian Jane Prosser[1] Published: 09:56, 19 October 2023 | Updated: 09:56, 19 October 2023
No one was wearing seatbelts during the M53 school bus crash that killed 15-year-old schoolgirl Jessica Baker and driver Step…
Jessica Baker died following a crash on the M53 in September. Photo: HandoutThe family of a teenage girl who died after a school coach crashed on the M53 in Wirral have thanked the public for their “very kind comments and offers of support” as tributes…
Motorists are being warned a stretch of the M53 will be shut ‘for some time’ as emergency services deal with ‘a number of casualties’. Police, firefighters, paramedics, and the air ambulance were scrambled to the stretch through Hooton just after 8am t…
A driver suffered an ‘event’ and ‘slumped’ at the wheel moments before his school bus crashed on the M53, killing him and a teenage girl, a coroner’s court was told.
Stephen Shrimpton, 40, Jessica Baker, 15, both died when the bus crashed on the northb…
A 14-year-old boy seriously injured in the horrific school bus crash that left two dead is still in hospital, police have said today.
Two people died in the crash on the M53 last week when a school bus overturned on the motorway at around 8am on Friday…