A lorry driver has been banned from the roads after he drove 30 miles while twice the drink drive limit and ended up demolishing a lamp post.
Oliver Hellawell’s 43 tonne artic was seen swerving around the M5 at Taunton and continued driving erratically…
Delays are being reported on the A38, A30, the M5, the A380 and around Exeter this morning.
Emergency repairs and temporary traffic lights are in place on on A30 near Viney Lane, after a bin lorry crashed and overturned yesterday, damaging …
USUALLY, if horses end up loose on the motorway, the police would be your first call…
But today, they were responsible for an equine incident when the Avon and Somerset force’s horse truck broke down.
Officers closed the M5 near Weston so the horses …
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A tragic father who caused the death of his fiancée when he fell asleep at the wheel on the way back from a holiday in Egypt has been spared jail.
Dominic Evans was driving his 22-year-old partner Kayleigh Gill and their two young children back from Ga…
The truck driver accused of a crash which killed a young Sydney boy on Wednesday has been refused bail.
Pushminder Singh Grewal, 26, was charged after a 10-year-old boy was killed in a pile-up involving the truck and three cars on the M5 at Riverwood.
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Mother injured in crash that killed her son, 10, is ‘still in shock’ and his sister remains in hospital – as the truck driver ‘who hit them’ claims ‘his brakes failed’
Boy, 10, killed in horror crash on Sydney’s M5 has been named…
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A truck driver has been charged after a 10-year-old boy was killed in a pile-up on the M5 in Sydney.
The accident, involving the truck and three cars, occurred just east of Belmore Road in Riverwood before 8:20am on Wednesday.
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An inquest into the death of a woman who was killed in a head-on collision with a HGV was unable to clarify what caused her to crash.
Carol Taylor, 46, from Bridgwater, travelled southbound in a silver Peugeot 206 on the A370 Bridgwater Road in Lympsha…
Truck driver, 26, is charged over crash that left boy, 10, dead and his sister injured – as he’s accused of ‘misconduct’ behind the wheel after police seized his phone
Harley Brandon Dexter, 10, died after horror crash on Sydney’…
A dog who escaped from a box on the back of its owner’s truck this morning has been found safe and well just before the junction of a motorway.
Had three-year-old Eley not been spotted and rescued by a quick thinking couple the outcome could have been …
A man was seriously injured in a serious crash in Selly Oak.
Emergency services rushed to the scene in the early hours after a collision involving a car and a lorry n Bristol Road.
Paramedics attended alongside police officers after reports of an accid…
One of Birmingham’s busiest roads is closed after a man was badly hurt in a 4am lorry crash.
Bristol Road at Selly Oak remained closed on Sunday morning following the accident, which also involved a car.
A man, who was inside the car, was rushed to hos…
A woman is believed to be in a critical condition in hospital this morning after a serious crash on the M5 yesterday.
The incident involved a car and a lorry, with firefighters having to cut the female car driver out of the vehicle after it became wedg…
