WE ASKED you where in Gwent you would like to see speed cameras set up – and you responded in your hundreds.We received almost 300 suggestions of places you would like to see a speed camera installed.
Below are some of the roads that were mentioned by …
A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash involving a lorry and a car on a rural East Yorkshire road.
Humberside Police closed the A1033 near Patrington, Holderness, for three hours on Friday morning (August 28) when a black …
A rural road in the East Riding is shut following a serious crash between a car and lorry.
The A1033 between Patrington and Bydales Lane at Winestead, Holderness, is currently closed.
It is believed to have happened on the S bend of Winestead Lane and …
A driver who did a risky overtake on a busy Angus road in his 4×4 was caught out by a police patrol car he failed to spot behind him.
Michael Burke pulled out to pass a lorry in heavy rain on the A933 Friockheim to Colliston road during the afternoon of May 30.
The 61-year-old’s lawyer told Forfar Sheriff Court his client had carried on with the manoeuvre in an “error of judgment” after committing to it.
Burke, of Cedar Way, Friockheim was originally charged with dangerous driving but a plea to the lesser charge of careless driving was accepted by the Crown when he appeared before Sheriff Derek Reekie at Forfar.
Depute fiscal Bill Kermode said the accused was in a Land Rover Discovery Sport and the offence happened just before 3.30pm when heavy rain had led to a large amount of surface water and poor visibility.
The police patrol car saw Burke overtake the HGV on the approach to a left hand bend, and continue past it without a clear view of the road ahead.
Burke was able to pull in but police noted there had been other traffic travelling in the opposite direction just after the incident and they stopped the accused.
Defence solicitor Nick Markowski said: “He started the overtake and once he committed he found the vehicle was travelling slightly faster than he anticipated.
“He wasn’t going over the speed limit but he was going too fast for the conditions. It was an error of judgment and he accepts that.”
Burke was fined £300 and given six penalty points.
Sheriff Reekie told him: “I take the view this was at the upper end of careless driving.”
For as little as £5.99 a month you can access all of our content, including Premium articles.
Arable farm profits may be at the mercy of fluctuating commodity values, but knowing the exact quantity of grain in store has given Gloucestershire grower Ian Watts a stronger hand when it comes to bagging decent forward prices.
Like ma…
A COURIER involved in a head-on crash on claimed he had swerved into the wrong lane to avoid running into the back of a lorry.Blackburn magistrates heard the lorry driver believed van driver Sadaqat Hussain pulled out to overtake despite having to cros…
Motorcyclist cheats death by leaping into a ditch as dustbin lorry overturns on a bend and crushes his bike
Dustbin lorry loses control as it goes around a bend and crashes into a truck
The lorry overturns and rolls across the ro…
Accidents are fact of life, but most people don’t hit 26 cars in a span of approximately 40 miles (64 km). However, that’s exactly what happened to the driver of a stolen pickup.
According to the Oregon State Police, they responded to a report about a …
Lush landscapes, five-star dinners and wild street parties… St Lucia you really are divine!
The Daily Mail’s Victoria Bischoff checked into the stunning Cap Maison hotel on St Lucia’s north coast
The eye-catching island i…
“Safety is at the heart of the Volta brand for one simple reason. In London, as an example, 23% of pedestrian fatalities and 58% of cyclist deaths involve an HGV, yet large trucks only account for 4% of road miles. This is clearly unacceptable and must…
A pensioner who veered into oncoming traffic causing a head-on collision was suffering from a chest infection.
David Bott lost control of his Vauxhall Meriva as he negotiated a left-hand bend on the B5032 Alton Road in Threapwood.
The 79-year-old then …
PICTURED: Four best mates in their early 20s who were ‘killed instantly’ when their car collided head-on with a ute – as grieving sister of victim pens a gut-wrenching note to her ‘loved one’
Three young women and a man died in a…
“Not again!” was the thought of a shocked homeowner after two vehicles ploughed through their property in the space of just one week.
The incidents happened on a bad corner on the A444 in the tiny hamlet of Acresford – near Donisthorpe and Overseal – i…
Walk down a number of streets in Surrey’s town centres and you’ll notice something that looks both out of place and like you couldn’t move it out of place if you tried.
The giant cast iron bells that adorn the corners and edges of many pavements, inclu…
A truck driver used a portable extinguisher in an unsuccessful bid to put out a car fire after a Dunedin crash which resulted in two deaths.
Nearby resident Abbey Reid was woken by the crash between a late-model car and a rubbish truck close to a sha…