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Motorists facing rush-hour gridlock as two key roads dug up

Motorists are facing more rush-hour delays on two key city roads this afternoon – after both routes were dug up at the same time. Drivers say they are being left with little choice but to sit in the queues with temporary lights now up on Leek Road, thr…

‘Capsized’ lorry shuts A53 as police and paramedics alerted

Police and paramedics were called out to a busy North Staffordshire road after a truck ‘capsized’. The incident on the A53 through Baldwins Gate left the route ‘partially blocked’ for a number of hours.
As reported by StokeonTrentLive[1] the road was i…

Live: A53 danger road blocked after lorry crash

There are delays on the A53 around Baldwins Gate this evening after a crash involving a lorry. The incident happened between the Aston turn off and Slater’s Craft Village turn off, with the road said to be partially blocked in both directions.
Traffic …

Cadent can’t say when repairs causing A53 disruption will end

Gas network firm Cadent says it doesn’t know how a ‘complex’ repair causing disruption on the A53 in Sneyd Green will take. Long queues have been seen at the three-way temporary traffic lights on A53 Leek New Road around the junction with Chacewater Dr…

BMW driver in Royal Stoke after smash that shut A53

An elderly BMW driver has been injured in a crash that shut a major road linking Stoke-on-Trent to the Staffordshire Moorlands. The A53 was closed this morning after a BMW and a truck collided in Stockton Brook[1], with queues stretching almost as far …

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