A rush hour accident on the M57 has brought traffic to a standstill between Switch Island and Kirkby.
According to traffic management monitor Inrix, there is “very slow traffic” and one lane is closed in both directions from the A59 (Switch Island) to …
One lane is closed on the M6 northbound at junction 31 (A59 Preston New Road) due to a crash first reported shortly after 5am this morning (February 14).
This is causing tailbacks down the M6 to the junction with the M61, where there was another crash …
Blackburn[1] Magistrates’ Court heard a man and a woman, both in their 60s, were killed when a Mercedes-Benz lorry driven by Christopher Kavanagh hit them head on.
The couple were travelling along the A59 at Sawley in a Chrysler car when the lorry cros…
A man has been arrested after a car crashed during a police chase.
Images from the scene show traffic lights at Switch Island damaged in the incident which also left two people in hospital. Merseyside Police[1] were called to reports a Ford Kuga was st…
Lanes have reopened on the motorway near J31 (Samlesbury) heading northbound, but there are still long residual delays.
Lancashire Police have confirmed a driver crashed their car into the central reservation, though it was a damage-only incident and n…
Belmont level crossing. Image: Google Streetview.
Belmont level crossing on Forest Lane in Starbeck is to close overnight twice this week, Network Rail[1] has confirmed.
The crossing will be shut to allow maintenance teams to carry out a rail corrosio…
Police are urging motorists to take extra care after heavy rain after Storm Debi[1] left roads in North Yorkshire flooded.
North Yorkshire Police[2] were called out to 100 incidents between 8pm last night and midnight, and a further 100 between midnigh…
North Yorkshire Police are urging motorists to take extra care this morning after exceptionally heavy rain overnight left roads in North Yorkshire flooded.
The force say they have dealt with calls about people being trapped in vehicles in floodwater, c…
North Yorkshire Police are urging motorists to take extra care this morning after exceptionally heavy rain overnight left roads in North Yorkshire flooded.
The force say they have dealt with calls about people being trapped in vehicles in floodwater, c…
Roads, train and bus services have been hugely disrupted across Yorkshire as Storm Babet[1] continues to batter the region.
Cars have got stuck in flood water, roads have been blocked off and public transport has been cancelled. Train stations are unde…
Oliver Stevens’ family feared he would never see, walk or talk again after the crash in West Marton on July 15 last year. Oliver, who was 21 at the time, suffered life threatening injuries when his friend’s car collided with a 40-tonne articulated Par…
Two men have been taken to hospital after a police chase involving a stolen car led to a crash.
At around 9.30am on Sunday, September 10, the police received a report of a black Hyundai Baron being stolen from Penrith. They also received information it…
Unknown persons throw benches into Beuel skate park
A group of youths or young adults have caused considerable damage to the concrete structures of the skate park in Beuel’s Rheinaue on Landgrabenweg. As Sascha Heinz, chairman of the operating assoc…
Once serving commercial shipping on the River Ribble at Preston, the line to the Port of Preston dates from the dawn of the railway age and is now a unique part of the UK network, with regular freight trains operating over part of what is now a heritag…