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Police were called after an HGV crashed into a bridge in between Junction 44 and 45 of the M6 just before 7am on Thursday morning.
The M6 Northbound was closed and long delays were seen back on the M6 to beyond Junction 43 and on the diversion route.
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The road was closed after an HGV struck a bridge over the motorway. No injuries have been reported.
Long delays have been reported with traffic backed up on both sides of the border.
Diversions have been put in place, but drivers have been asked to avo…
Police were called at 1.20pm on Monday, following a collision between junction 19 for Knutsford and junction 20 for the M56 Lymm Interchange.
Drivers faced long queues on the northbound carriageway as the crash partially blocked the motorway.
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All traffic is being held on the M6 in Staffordshire – after a lorry has overturned in a crash. Police are at the scene of the incident on the southbound side of the motorway between junctions 14 and 13 for Stafford.
The incident was first reported at …
A dad who killed his own son in a drug fuelled driving collision was among those jailed in September 2025.Daniel Burba lost control of his van on the M6 near Lancaster, killing his teenage son.Also jailed were shoplifters, drug dealers and paedophiles….
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…
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…
Photographs of naked women appeared on the X social media feed of Neil Platt, 43, moments before the horrific crash near junction four of the M58 in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on May 17 last year.
A “heavily distracted” Platt failed to notice stationary…
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Lorry driver Neil Platt was mindlessly scrolling on his mobile phone before ramming at speed into Danny Aitchison’s Hyundai Kona, killing him instantly…
The HGV driver has been jailed for 10 years
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Neil Platt killed a man with his lorry while distracted by online porn
Trucker Neil Platt was distracted by pornography images on his phone just seconds before he killed a dad-of-two in a …