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The busy junction sees more than 90,000 drivers a day
15:54, 19 Mar 2025
Work is close to completion on new cameras on the M57(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)
Switch Island has seen the introduction of new cameras at the end o…
Tributes have flooded in for the 21-year-old who was killed when her boyfriend swerved off the M62 after picking her up following her shift at a pub
11:04, 18 Jan 2025Updated 13:14, 18 Jan 2025
Kate Swale was killed when her boyfriend crashed the car…
Emergency services descended onto a busy slip road on the M57 [1]after a tanker is believed to have overturned. The vehicle is believed to have overturned heading northbound before joining the motorway at junction four, with a witness telling the ECHO[…
National Highways has announced plans to install speed cameras on a busy Merseyside road to improve road safety
14:30, 18 Aug 2024
National Highways has announced plans to install speed cameras at Switch Island(Image: PA)
National Highways has announ…
Work on the M57 will begin later this month
13:55, 15 Aug 2024Updated 13:59, 15 Aug 2024
Switch Island in Merseyside(Image: Liverpool Echo)
Speed cameras will be installed at Switch Island as part of a number of changes coming to the M57 in Merseysid…
Online claims that a new speed camera had been installed on the M57 – and had already caught out more than 100 careless drivers – have been confirmed as baseless rumours.
A Facebook[1] post claiming a speed camera had gone live “somewhere in the transi…
A lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of drug driving after a crash.
Emergency services were called to Switch Island on the M58[1] at around 6.30am on Friday, May 31 after reports of a crash involving a yellow lorry. When officers arrived, they foun…
Drivers have been urged to avoid Switch Island after a lorry overturned.
Emergency services were called to Switch Island on the M58[1] at around 6.30am on Friday, May 31 after reports of a crash involving a yellow lorry. When officers arrived, they fou…
A motorcyclist has died after a horror crash involving a bin lorry on the East Lancashire Road. Emergency services descended on the scene at around 6.35am on Thursday (May 9) to reports the motorbike rider had collided with a refuse lorry on the westbo…
A crash on the East Lancashire Road was confirmed to have been between a bin lorry and a motorbike.
Emergency services were called to the eastbound carriageway between Moorgate Road and the slip road for the M57[1] at around 6.35am on Thursday, May 9. …