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A lorry driver was “very fortunate” to survive a crash as a result of a tyre blowout, motorway police said. He was on the M6 in the West Midlands on Thursday when it sent his vehicle crashing into barriers and off the carriageway. A stretch of the sout…
A lorry crashed through a barrier on the M6, closing three lanes to traffic. The articulated vehicle was pictured having gone through a fence and into some trees next to the hard shoulder.
Lanes of the motorway were closed for more than 12 hours after …
A lorry driver was seriously injured but ‘lucky to be alive’ after a crash on the M6. The heavy goods vehicle collided with another truck before smashing into a concrete barrier.
The shocking crash happened just before junction five for Birmingham, nea…
Traffic was stopped on the southbound carriageway between Junction 7 for Walsall and Junction 6 due to a major collision.
The barrier needed repairing and it took some time for the lorry involved in the incident to be recovered.
But all lanes had reope…
M6 drivers will face ‘major disruption’ as a section of the motorway is closed off overnight to recover the wreckage of a crashed lorry. A dramatic photo captures the HGV virtually upside-down on the roadside after veering off the motorway.
The motoris…
A football fan cleared of assaulting a police officer who was said to have behaved “disgracefully” is considering legal action against a force.Barrow AFC fan Edward Papas, 27, was prosecuted following an incident outside Bescot Stadium following a matc…
Two lorry drivers have been left injured after separate crashes – hours apart – on the M6 today. Rush hour drivers faced long delays and huge tailbacks on the motorway after two incidents close to one another.[1]
The first incident saw a lorry driver s…
Birmingham drivers have been warned of ‘long delays’ on the M6 Southbound this afternoon following a second crash on the motorway.[1] Emergency services were called to two separate crashes hours apart on same the stretch.
The latest collision took plac…
The collision happened on the section between junction 9 for Wednesbury and junction 8 for the M5 link road at around 12.45pm.
Delays were seen on the motorway as far back as junction 10 for Wolverhampton and Walsall, as well as on local routes between…
Police[1] have arrested a 32-year-old man after a woman was killed in a Staffordshire smash. Emergency services had been scrambled to the A5 near Great Wyrley last night to reports of a crash between two cars.
As reported by StokeonTrentLive[2] the Wat…