66 m. ago Road rage driver assaulted dad in Wishaw after striking windscreen of car with child onboard

Kristopher Lorimer punched and kicked the victim at Tesco in Belhaven Road

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15 h. ago You’re going to see a lot more BYD cars on the road very soon

Boss Stella Li tells The Independent five new BYD PHEVs will arrive in 18 months

Transport

47 h. ago The DeLorean is on the brink of EXTINCTION: Just 303 Back to the Future cars remain on UK roads, figures reveal

New data reveals that Back to the Future's DeLorean DMC-12 is on the brink of extinction, with just 303 left on Britain's roads.

Transport

59 h. ago Four high school students killed and two injured as SUV crashes into tree in California

Six teenage girls aged between 14 and 16 were traveling in a Volkswagen SUV that careered off the road and hit a tree in Marin County, near San Francisco

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3 d. ago ‘You’ll never amount to anything’: the boxing world champion you’ve never heard of

Australian Diana Prazak was told she wouldn’t make it as a boxer. She’s just been inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of FameThe soft early evening spring light floods the room behind the world champion you’ve probably never heard of. In front of a big poster of a shirtless Bruce Lee adorning her wall, Diana Prazak smiles and laughs often as she talks about her most unlikely career and her road to the top.The expatriate from Melbourne is arguably the most successful professional boxer that Australia has produced – she attained the ranking of best active professional boxer pound-for-pound in 2014 – but celebration of her world champion status remains disappointingly muted in her home country. Continue reading...

Sport

3 d. ago Several injured after crash involving bus and car with major road closed

Tyldesley Road is closed in both directions

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4 d. ago Woman dances in road before being carried on car bonnet for 30 yards in Wembley hit

Police are appealing to identify a woman who was seen dancing in the middle of a Wembley road before a hit-and-run collision on Thursday, 17 April.

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4 d. ago Live updates after all traffic was held following crash on A4232 just off M4 junction 33

A crash on the A4232 Southbound from M4 J33 (Cardiff West And Services) to A48 Cowbridge Road has led to disruption, with heavy queues. There is also a separate incident in west Wales

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4 d. ago Live updates as A487 near Aberystwyth remains closed both ways after crash

Earlier, another crash on the A4232 Southbound from M4 J33 (Cardiff West And Services) to A48 Cowbridge Road led to disruption, with heavy queues

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4 d. ago Are cable cars safe? How they work and worst disasters after Naples crash kills four

Some 28 miles to the southeast of Naples in Southern Italy, four people have been killed including British woman Margaret Elaine Winn, 58, in a cable car incident but how safe are these roads in the sky?

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4 d. ago All the Cardiff city centre roads closed on Easter Saturday for major rugby event

Here's everything you need to know ahead of Judgement Day

Transport

5 d. ago Shocking moment mother, 43, drags two police officers along the road with her car after being pulled over

Lauren Baird, 43, gave a false name and details to officers when she was pulled over in Aviemore in Scotland after a computer check revealed the vehicle had no insurance.

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5 d. ago The EV graveyard is cleared! Abandoned new electric cars worth £275k dumped on Nottingham road are collected

The eight EVs, which we showed abandoned at the roadside in Nottingham yesterday, were recovered last night and are being prepared for sale at auction alongside another 35 new examples.

Economics

5 d. ago EV graveyard for sale! Abandoned new electric cars worth £275k dumped on Nottingham road will be sold at auction

The eight EVs, which we showed abandoned at the roadside in Nottingham yesterday, were recovered last night and are being prepared for sale at auction alongside another 35 new examples.

Economics

5 d. ago Horrifying moment mum fleeing police drags officers along road behind her car

The two officers narrowly avoided being dragged under the wheels, but both sustained multiple injuries.

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6 d. ago Astonishing queue of £200k electric vehicles dumped in street and left to rot

The Fisker Ocean cars have been abandoned on a road in Colwick, Nottingham, after the company that made them went bust and left them to rot at a local dealership

Economics

6 d. ago Homes evacuated after car smashes into house as man rushed to hospital

Bricks were sent crumbling into the ground after the car veered off the road and hit the front of a house in Blackley

Society

6 d. ago London road crime: specialist Met police unit only investigates one in 10 serious injury crashes

Concern that many victims are treated as lower priority and struggle to secure compensation

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6 d. ago Over £275k of unwanted electric cars dumped at the roadside in Nottingham after US Tesla rival went bust

Nine brand new EVs have been abandoned on a public road after the Tesla-rivalling manufacturer went into liquidation last year.

Transport

7 d. ago Pensioner in hospital after car hits tree on scenic Scottish road

The car collided with a tree in Argyll and Bute, leaving a man in hospital

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