Transport and Logistics Network
Motorists are being warned the A500[1] has been left ‘partially blocked’ following a collision. The crash has triggered around two miles of queues on the D-road.
Meanwhile one passing driver says a lorry and a car are involved in the smash which has ta…
Money that would have been spent on the HS2 rail project – most of which had already been scrapped in the Derby area[1] in 2021 anyway – is to be spent improving roads and public transport “benefiting more people, in more places, more quickly”, accordi…
A major project to bulldoze two A50 roundabouts[1] that cause gridlock every day has finally been given the green light – more than a decade after it was first mooted. The move to take out the McDonald’s and Derby Road roundabouts, in Uttoxeter[2], wil…
As pressure grows on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to make an announcement about the future of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 line, we take a look back at Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s failed £800,000 bid to secure a stop in the city on the h…
Paramedics assessed a lorry driver after an A500 crash. The HGV finished on a grass verge alongside the A500 between the Audley and Talke junctions yesterday.
It followed reports that a lorry had ‘hit a bridge’.
West Midlands Ambulance Service sent one…
There are long delays on the M6 southbound towards Stoke-on-Trent this afternoon after a jack-knifed lorry damaged a bridge. The incident occurred at junction 15 for the A500 D to Stoke-on-Trent and queues stretch back over eight miles to junction 16 f…
Police and paramedics[1] were called to a smash on the D-road last night. Witnesses say part of the stretch – between Hanford and Stoke[2] – was closed as a result of the crash.
Staffordshire Police[3] were called to the scene at around 7.45pm. Officer…
A woman was bitten while trying to stop her pet from being attacked by a roaming dog. And today Staffordshire Police[1] are trying to trace the owner of the Mastiff following the incident on Cobridge’s[2] Mulgrave Street.
Officers say the victim, a wom…
A stretch of the A500[1] was shut off this morning following a crash between two lorries. And one trucker is today in hospital following the smash between Porthill and the Sandyford turn-off.
As police and paramedics dealt with the incident – which occ…
One lane was closed on the A500 after a lorry reportedly hit a bridge. The accident happened just before midday today (September 25).
It has been reported by traffic updates service Inrix the lorry hit a bridge then went off the road on the A500 D Road…