Police have confirmed that the lorry driver who was killed in a crash on the M5 yesterday was from Bristol.
The man died when the lorry he was driving overturned across the central reservation of the motorway at around 8am on Sunday , January 17.
The t…
Investigations will continue today into a fatal collision in which a lorry driver died on the M5 near Bristol.
The incident happened northbound at around 8am on Sunday (January 17) when a HGV that had joined from the M4 overturned on to the central res…
After a tragic crash on the M5 earlier today saw a driver die and the road closed, both carriageways have now full reopened.
The M5 was closed between J14 B4509 (Thornbury / Falfield) to J15 M4 (Almondsbury Interchange), near Bristol both north and sou…
A lorry driver whose vehicle overturned onto the central reservation of the M5 this morning has died from their injuries, police have confirmed.
The driver, who has not been named, was killed when their HGV crashed on the northbound M5 at the junction …
A serious collision involving a lorry overturning across the motorway will close the M5 ‘for most of the day’.
The crash happened just after 8am this morning (Sunday, January 17) at the M4/M5 Almondsbury interchange.
It is believed the crash took place…
A Bristol road was closed in both directions this evening after a single-vehicle crash.
Avon and Somerset Police were called to the scene on Badminton Road, Downend, around 5.40pm, and closed the road to traffic.
Drivers in the area were affected, with…
Police are on their way to the scene of a crash on the M5 southbound, heading into Bristol.
The incident took place around 5pm this evening (Thursday, January 14) between Junctions 15 and 16.
Avon and Somerset Police received reports of a collision bet…
A serious accident has closed one of the major routes in the centre of Bristol tonight.
Two cars were involved in a serious collision on the Brunel Way overpass in the Cumberland basin area.
Police and ambulances attended the scene of the accident and …
Britain could face a period of “extreme cold weather” later this month, scientists have said.Research by academics at the universities of Bath, Bristol and Exeter projects a drop in temperatures due to a phenomenon called sudden stratospheric warming (…
Rescue services were left with a sinking feeling after a digger became stuck on a beach – while trying to save a stranded truck from the incoming tide.
The digger was sent to the front at Weston-super-Mare, in North Somerset, yesterday (January 5) to h…
A PROUD dad has told how his soldier son helped truck drivers stranded in Dover make it home for Christmas.Ryan Jones, 19, of the Royal Welsh Regiment, was deployed to the Channel port at around 7pm on Christmas Eve.
He was one of 1,300 soldiers who ha…
Police say a man will appear in court after a car was allegedly driven on the road with ‘slick’ tyres and crashed.
One person inside the car suffered a fractured collarbone after the collision last night (Friday, January 1), according to Avon and Somer…
Fly-tippers operating in villages on the outskirts of Bath are giving genuine companies a “bad name”, a waste disposal expert has said.
His comment followed news that a truck-load of rubbish – mainly timber – had been dumped in Combe Hay, a Somerset vi…
Millions more people across the UK have been placed under tighter coronavirus restrictions from today.
Another six million in England have been placed in Tier 4, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have also imposed harsher measures on their citizens o…
The UK has banned travel from South Africa after a ‘concerning’ new strain of coronavirus, believed to have originated in that country, was discovered in England.
Last night, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Twitter: “I’ve taken the decisi…