Known as England’s highest motorway, the M62 has long stood as a symbol of progress, but its construction is a tale in itself.
Generations have now grown up with the M62 fully completed, but some will remember life before it, in the 1950s and earlier. …
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At 2.06am, police received reports of a Vauxhall Corsa travelling westbound on the eastbound carriageway of the motorway.
Officers were deployed to locate the vehicle, but it was found to have been in collision a short time later with a V…
According to National Highways North West, two out of three lanes have been closed on the M6 within the roadworks at junction 21a, where the motorway meets the M62.
It posted: “2 lanes (of 3) are closed on the #M6[1] southbound in #Cheshire[2] within J…
Last week, a driver told of the terror he felt after, he said, his brakes failed on the motorway.[1]
The incident was widely reported by media outlets, with two lanes shut on the motorway while police escorted the driver just after 2.15pm on Wednesday,…
Jaguar Land Rover[1] has launched a safety probe after a driver’s brakes reportedly failed on a major motorway. The driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after an incident on the M62, near Warrington, on March 6.
The 31-year-old was dri…
The driver of an electric car who claimed that a technical glitch caused him to drive down a motorway at 100mph has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving.
Nathan Owen, 31, was returning from his first day at a new job when his £80,000 electri…
Emergency services were called to the scene of the collision, which happened on the eastbound carriageway close to junction 29, for Lofthouse, at around 3.30am yesterday.
West Yorkshire Police said the crash involved a white Audi A3 “travelling against…
A man who was killed in a crash on the M62 this morning has been named and picture locally.
In the early hours of this morning (March 9), a driver was killed in a crash on the M62 near Lofthouse. West Yorkshire Police, along with the fire and ambulance…
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The M62 eastbound was shut by police at 3.30am today (Saturday March 9) as emergency services rushed to the scene of the accident between Leeds and Wakefield.
The…
Having a car run away with you is many drivers’ worst nightmare. It became a reality for Nathan Owen, 31, recently when his Jaguar I-Pace accelerated up to 100mph on the busy M62 motorway and he said he was unable to brake[1]. He was only able to …
Stuart John Milligan was caught breaking the speed limit while driving on the M62.
The case of the 60-year-old, of Lymm, was recently heard before Tameside Magistrates’ Court.
The court heard how Milligan exceed a variable speed limit and was clocked b…
Drivers often wonder why there is a farm right in the middle of the M62[1] motorway between junctions 22 and 23 near Huddersfield.
There is a rumour the farmer wouldn’t move when the road was built, so the six lanes of traffic were constructed around t…
(l-r) Andrew Percy, MP for Brigg & Goole; Esa Kaikkonen, CEO of Metsä Tissue; and Dominic Gibbons, managing director of Wykeland Group (Image credit: R&R Studio)
A proposed Freeport tax site in Goole, designed to stimulate further major investment wit…
Constance Marten has claimed she knew the moment her baby Victoria had died in her arms – as she was on the run from police.
The aristocrat, aged 38, and her partner Mark Gordon, 49, spent almost two months running from police. Officers began searching…