This is the frightening moment a car narrowly avoided ploughing into a crash barrier after being forced off the road by a HGV.
Footage captured by GMP Traffic officers shows the lorry driver pulling into lane one ‘totally unaware’ there was a car on th…
An HGV driver who attempted a U-turn on a “dark and foggy” road, resulting in a collision with a police car, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years. Andrei Stan (pictured) was found guilty at Reading Crown Court of causing serious injury by …
Two men have been arrested in relation to an attack on a lorry driver who was taken to hospital after being attacked at a set of traffic lights on a motorway slip road.
One man aged 25 and one aged 34 have been detained on suspicion of racially aggrava…
THE family of a police officer who suffered life-changing injuries at the hands of a ‘dangerous’ lorry driver has spoken out after his sentencing.
Andrei Stan, of Romania, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on February 25 after the serious crash whic…
A NEW initiative aimed to crackdown on mobile phone use while driving saw police using a lorry to catch a culprit using his mobile while at the wheel.Highways England provided South Yorkshire Police with an unmarked HGV tractor unit, which allowed…
STAFFORDSHIRE Police has taken delivery of a new HGV cab which has been used to help detect motoring offences across the region’s roads.
The work is part of the force’s continued work with Highways England in its national campaign, Operation Tramline.
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Police arrested three suspected illegal immigrants after an HGV driver heard voices coming from the back of his lorry in Leicestershire.
The three men were detained after the driver called the police while he was parked up on an industrial estate in Lu…
Eighteen people have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry at the Haddon services on the A1M near Peterborough.
The driver of the HGV noticed the people on board and called the police at around 11.30am on Tuesday morning.
Nobody was …
A delivery driver who was sacked for refusing to wear a face mask inside his cab during the pandemic was dismissed fairly, a judge has ruled.Deimantas Kubilius, who was based at Kent Foods’ Basildon site, was dismissed following the incident in May las…
Police have been left stunned after spotting a lorry driver talking on his mobile phone while driving down a busy road.
Officers from Staffs Police Road Policing Unit had been out and about on the A50 in East Staffordshire yesterday, Friday, February 1…
Tributes have been paid to a man credited as Britain’s first south Asian class one HGV driver.
Abdul Shakoor from Manor Park died at Newham University Hospital on February 7 after testing positive for Covid-19 and contracting pneumonia.
Mr Shako…
FIREFIGHTERS freed the trapped driver of an overturned lorry on the sliproad off Juction 15 of the M4.Crews from Stratton St Margaret and Swindon fire stations along with a heavy rescue vehicle from Reading fire station worked throughout the morning on…
The roads and highways in the United Kingdom are blighted by unnecessary accidents with over 1500 road fatalities in 2020 alone. Watch even a little accident footage from Highways England and you’ll see a litany of examples of drivers hurtling towards …
There is huge demand in the United Kingdom for qualified Class 1 and Class 2 HGV drivers, with essential services needing to be maintained across the country. One such service is the post and HGVT – the national HGV training provider – is currently hir…
An HGV driver was caught holding two mobile phones – one to each ear – as he drove along the M4 in his 44-tonne vehicle. The incident was one of more than 100 offences Avon and Somerset police spotted last week on motorways and described as “app…