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A drink-driver has been jailed for killing his passenger in a crash, after driving the wrong way on a motorway into oncoming traffic. Thomas O’Brien-Wood had “failed to stop for West Midlands Police officers on the A446 prior to joining the M42 and was driving dangerously”, Warwickshire Police confirmed.
An elderly man was struck down by a car in the Small Heath area of Birmingham last night (9 August). Police have launched an investigation following the horrific collision between a car and the 65-year-old victim who is now in a critical condition in hospital.
Within hours of a crackdown against dangerous and antisocial drivers going into operation the police have collared 23 drivers. Operation Triton – which combats the threat posed by reckless drivers – came into effect on Monday 7 August and within hours drivers had been caught zooming through red lights, having illegal window tints, drug driving,…
A major offensive against dangerous and antisocial drivers came into effect on Monday (7 August) after recent hit-and-run deaths and antisocial driving in Birmingham. Operations have been launched as part of a coordinated response by Transport for West Midlands, West Midlands Police, Birmingham City Council, and the region’s Police and Crime Commissioner to recent accidents…
West Midlands Police have made a series of arrests during a crackdown on antisocial street racing where dangerous drivers use the region’s roads as race tracks and put other motorists and pedestrians at risk. The crackdown comes at a time when the number of people injured or killed due to reckless and illegal racing is…
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a cyclist tragically lost his life in a hit-and-run collision on Tuesday night in Birmingham. The man was riding an e-bike in Yardley when he was struck by a car just before midnight on 1 August.
A car crashed into a tram stop in the heart of Birmingham city centre this afternoon just before 4pm. The collision took place in Broad Street near the junction of Sheepcote street shortly before 4pm on Tuesday (4 July).
Police are hunting the driver of a car who fled the scene after a pedestrian was struck down and killed in Birmingham on Saturday. The fatal collision is believed to have taken place at around 2am (1 July) on Washwood Heath Road near the junction with Bennetts Road, say police.
Police have launched a hunt for a driver who fled the scene after an accident which seriously injured a mother and child in Kings Heath this morning. The poor victims were at a pedestrian crossing on the High Street near Asda when they were struck by a vehicle which then made off at around 8.50am.
A speeding drink driver from Stourbridge has been jailed for 28 months after her car struck a grandfather. Laura Preston was speeding her Citroen C3 in a 30mph limit along Walsall Street in Willenhall on the afternoon of 25 March last year.