A lorry driver has been charged with drink driving after police caught him swerving along the M1 in a 44-tonne truck.
Leicestershire Police officers stopped the HGV on the northbound section on the M1 through the county yesterday, Tuesday January 26.
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The blaze meant Highways England were forced to close the southbound carriageway of the motorway near Barnsley this afternoon (Tuesday, January 26).
The northbound carriageway was also closed for a while due to debris shooting over the central rese…
Two thirds of Britons think smart motorways are LESS safe than normal ones with hard shoulders and 57% are opposed to their use entirely, reveals YouGov pollMajority of Britons believe smart motorways are less safe than normal ones YouGov poll fou…
Smart motorways are “inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned,” a police and crime commissioner has said.Dr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire’s PCC, became the latest voice demanding the controversial road system – in which the hard shoulde…
Emergency services dealing with the three-vehicle smash near Junction 18 on Monday. Photo: @Northants_RCT
A 67-year-old trucker is in hospital with serious injuries after a crash which closed part of the M1 near Northampton for more than three hours …
A crash in ‘treacherous’ snowy conditions has closed part of the M1 in Leicestershire.
Police say the part of motorway has been closed south of Junction 22 near Markfield after five cars were involved in a collision.
The accident occurred on the slip r…
Dr Alan Billings wrote to Grant Shapps after this week’s inquest into the deaths of Rotherham man Jason Mercer and Alexandru Murgeanu, from Mansfield, who died in a collision on a stretch of the M1 motorway near Sheffield in June 2019.
Mr Mercer, a…
© Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logoSmart motorways are ‘inherently unsafe’ and ‘should be abandoned’, a police and crime commissioner says.
Dr Alan Billings, PCC for South Yorkshire, has written to the Government saying the abolition of the hard …
Widow of man killed on smart motorway blasts schemes after report reveals they dramatically raise risk of serious and fatal crashes in a live laneGovernment report says deaths on smart m-ways rise from zero to 2.8 a yearReport recommended an 18-point a…
Widow of man killed on smart motorway blasts schemes after report reveals they dramatically raise risk of serious and fatal crashes in a live laneGovernment report says deaths on smart m-ways rise from zero to 2.8 a yearReport recommended an 18-point a…
A coroner has given a stark warning about smart motorways after an inquest into the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1.
Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield…
Smart motorways ‘present ongoing risk of future deaths’ says coroner as he rules lack of hard shoulder contributed to M1 fatal accident that killed twoPrezemyslaw Szuba, 40, killed Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22 Szuba, from Hull, tol…
A lorry driver who killed two men when his truck ploughed into their vehicles on a stretch of smart motorway near Sheffield has told an inquest he believes he would have avoided them if there had been a hard shoulder.
Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Mu…
A Hull lorry driver who killed two men when his truck ploughed into their vehicles on a stretch of smart motorway has told an inquest he believes he would have avoided them if there had been a hard shoulder.
Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22…
A lorry driver who killed two men when his truck ploughed into their vehicles on a stretch of smart motorway has told an inquest he believes he would have avoided them if there had been a hard shoulder.Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died…