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  1. Multiple bottles of #prosecco yeeted into live lanes of #M4 #motorway and a container knocked from a #lorry following a #collision - one lorry #driver #arrested on suspicion of using a #mobilePhone at the wheel. There were only minor injuries, but the clean up will take a good few hours!

    #RoadSafety #Berkshire #England

    itv.com/news/meridian/2026-04-

  2. Multiple bottles of #prosecco yeeted into live lanes of #M4 #motorway and a container knocked from a #lorry following a #collision - one lorry #driver #arrested on suspicion of using a #mobilePhone at the wheel. There were only minor injuries, but the clean up will take a good few hours!

    #RoadSafety #Berkshire #England

    itv.com/news/meridian/2026-04-

  3. Multiple bottles of #prosecco yeeted into live lanes of #M4 #motorway and a container knocked from a #lorry following a #collision - one lorry #driver #arrested on suspicion of using a #mobilePhone at the wheel. There were only minor injuries, but the clean up will take a good few hours!

    #RoadSafety #Berkshire #England

    itv.com/news/meridian/2026-04-

  4. Multiple bottles of #prosecco yeeted into live lanes of #M4 #motorway and a container knocked from a #lorry following a #collision - one lorry #driver #arrested on suspicion of using a #mobilePhone at the wheel. There were only minor injuries, but the clean up will take a good few hours!

    #RoadSafety #Berkshire #England

    itv.com/news/meridian/2026-04-

  5. Multiple bottles of #prosecco yeeted into live lanes of #M4 #motorway and a container knocked from a #lorry following a #collision - one lorry #driver #arrested on suspicion of using a #mobilePhone at the wheel. There were only minor injuries, but the clean up will take a good few hours!

    #RoadSafety #Berkshire #England

    itv.com/news/meridian/2026-04-

  6. Good work by #lorry driver - keeping occupants of small car that has broken down on "smart" #motorway safe and calling nines so #Police and #NationalHighways are aware - it took 5 mins on 999 call, and 13 further minutes for National Highways to arrive on scene, and #drivers are barely noticing stationary lorry (further ahead the matrix sign is showing "national speed limit", which suggests there has already been a restriction on previous signs so drivers are likely trying to accelerate to get back to 70mph (112 km/h)

    These smart #motorways are not safe (thankfully there are no further ones being built)

    #RoadSafety #UK

    youtube.com/shorts/X5jG_bJ6ykk

  7. This man was #driving way too fast on the #m1 #motorway in #Buckinghamshire - he clouted armco of the central reservation and busted front wheel/driveshaft - and carried on driving to a petrol station!

    It seems he did not call 999 himself as he was committing a #DUI offence at the time - but was tracked down via #CCTV and brought before Crown #Court - he pleaded guilty and got 22 months in #jail due to the risk caused to other road users (he will likely serve about 8 months of that inside)

    #RoadSafety #England #UK

    bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx28vz04

  8. M4 Motorway Incidents Cause Widespread Disruption

    Several serious crashes, a lorry fire, and an oil spill have caused long delays and road closures on the M4 motorway in Berkshire. Find out what happened and how it affects travel.

    #M4 #Motorway #TrafficDelays #Berkshire #RoadSafety

    newsletter.tf/m4-motorway-inci

  9. The M4 motorway in Berkshire has seen many problems recently, including several serious crashes, a lorry fire, and an oil spill. These events have caused long traffic jams and road closures, affecting many drivers. Emergency services have been working to clear the roads.

    #M4 #Motorway #TrafficDelays #Berkshire #RoadSafety

    newsletter.tf/m4-motorway-inci

  10. RE: mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115

    Whilst this is partly true - for instance Crossrail / Elizabeth line was debated when I was a teenager, and only completed when I was the other side of 50, this also happen with #motorways / highways - there is no #motorway in the whole of #Suffolk and any plans to expand the A14 highway or deal with the bottleneck of the Orwell Bridge in #Ipswich get regularly rejected - its not even "value for the taxpayer" but also a suprising consensus of rich #NIMBY types who live in the rural areas and #Green activists who are unsurprisingly opposed to more road building - they do have a point as I can remember #M25 being built and soon getting gridlocked - but Suffolk does need *something* to cope with peak time traffic to/from the busy port at #Felixstowe

    #UK #roads #transport

  11. A #RoadRage #driver in the #Midlands has been banned from #driving for 3 years (the same penalty for multiple #DUI ) for abruptly stopping in lane 3 (overtaking lane) of the #motorway to threaten the driver behind him (and didn't even seem to care that this driver had a dashcam, and sent the footage straight to the #Police via #ExtraEyes / #OperationSnap ! )

    bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5yl29j8

  12. A #RoadRage #driver in the #Midlands has been banned from #driving for 3 years (the same penalty for multiple #DUI ) for abruptly stopping in lane 3 (overtaking lane) of the #motorway to threaten the driver behind him (and didn't even seem to care that this driver had a dashcam, and sent the footage straight to the #Police via #ExtraEyes / #OperationSnap ! )

    bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5yl29j8

  13. A #RoadRage #driver in the #Midlands has been banned from #driving for 3 years (the same penalty for multiple #DUI ) for abruptly stopping in lane 3 (overtaking lane) of the #motorway to threaten the driver behind him (and didn't even seem to care that this driver had a dashcam, and sent the footage straight to the #Police via #ExtraEyes / #OperationSnap ! )

    bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5yl29j8

  14. A #RoadRage #driver in the #Midlands has been banned from #driving for 3 years (the same penalty for multiple #DUI ) for abruptly stopping in lane 3 (overtaking lane) of the #motorway to threaten the driver behind him (and didn't even seem to care that this driver had a dashcam, and sent the footage straight to the #Police via #ExtraEyes / #OperationSnap ! )

    bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5yl29j8

  15. A #RoadRage #driver in the #Midlands has been banned from #driving for 3 years (the same penalty for multiple #DUI ) for abruptly stopping in lane 3 (overtaking lane) of the #motorway to threaten the driver behind him (and didn't even seem to care that this driver had a dashcam, and sent the footage straight to the #Police via #ExtraEyes / #OperationSnap ! )

    bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5yl29j8

  16. One one level this is quite amusing, on another this shows the sheer level of lawlesness in late 1990s Britain (particularly on the roads)

    A bunch of middle class bros running a fairly dubious car magazine (basically a "lad mag" with cars, often advocating poor #driving ) facilitated a foreigner to travel here in a vehicle that was likely not 100% road legal for UK, commit a serious traffic offence and there were only minor consequences for the driver (a fine + 10 year ban from entering the UK) and *none* for the Max Power editors.

    Smokey Nagata *was* fairly repentant (they did at least pick a #motorway with barely any traffic on it) and feared the publicity would affect his business, but it had the opposite effect (he's still alive and tuning #cars today!)

    youtube.com/watch?v=sJH0AGMlDqo

  17. Inssecure #Scaffold pole on truck came loose on #M4 #motorway in #Gwent #Wales due to heavy braking by truck #driver - the pole took off and speared the vehicle in front.

    Luckily there were no injuries, the driver has been reported by #heddlu for insecure load and is likely to end up in #Court

    #Police #Roadsafety

  18. Inssecure #Scaffold pole on truck came loose on #M4 #motorway in #Gwent #Wales due to heavy braking by truck #driver - the pole took off and speared the vehicle in front.

    Luckily there were no injuries, the driver has been reported by #heddlu for insecure load and is likely to end up in #Court

    #Police #Roadsafety

  19. Inssecure #Scaffold pole on truck came loose on #M4 #motorway in #Gwent #Wales due to heavy braking by truck #driver - the pole took off and speared the vehicle in front.

    Luckily there were no injuries, the driver has been reported by #heddlu for insecure load and is likely to end up in #Court

    #Police #Roadsafety

  20. Inssecure #Scaffold pole on truck came loose on #M4 #motorway in #Gwent #Wales due to heavy braking by truck #driver - the pole took off and speared the vehicle in front.

    Luckily there were no injuries, the driver has been reported by #heddlu for insecure load and is likely to end up in #Court

    #Police #Roadsafety

  21. Inssecure #Scaffold pole on truck came loose on #M4 #motorway in #Gwent #Wales due to heavy braking by truck #driver - the pole took off and speared the vehicle in front.

    Luckily there were no injuries, the driver has been reported by #heddlu for insecure load and is likely to end up in #Court

    #Police #Roadsafety

  22. #podcast by @1475 @[email protected] about the planned #motorway that is threatening the #egholm island.

    beautiful recordings of birds and other species of people living there.

    S for Sound, S for Solidarity - Episode 2 - A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance
    on.soundcloud.com/xyvAg6nJjkbn

    #dkpol #motornormativity #bilisme #cars #birds #thewaroncars

  23. #podcast by @1475 @[email protected] about the planned #motorway that is threatening the #egholm island.

    beautiful recordings of birds and other species of people living there.

    S for Sound, S for Solidarity - Episode 2 - A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance
    on.soundcloud.com/xyvAg6nJjkbn

    #dkpol #motornormativity #bilisme #cars #birds #thewaroncars

  24. #podcast by @1475 @[email protected] about the planned #motorway that is threatening the #egholm island.

    beautiful recordings of birds and other species of people living there.

    S for Sound, S for Solidarity - Episode 2 - A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance
    on.soundcloud.com/xyvAg6nJjkbn

    #dkpol #motornormativity #bilisme #cars #birds #thewaroncars

  25. #podcast by @1475 @[email protected] about the planned #motorway that is threatening the #egholm island.

    beautiful recordings of birds and other species of people living there.

    S for Sound, S for Solidarity - Episode 2 - A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance
    on.soundcloud.com/xyvAg6nJjkbn

    #dkpol #motornormativity #bilisme #cars #birds #thewaroncars

  26. #podcast by @1475 @[email protected] about the planned #motorway that is threatening the #egholm island.

    beautiful recordings of birds and other species of people living there.

    S for Sound, S for Solidarity - Episode 2 - A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance
    on.soundcloud.com/xyvAg6nJjkbn

    #dkpol #motornormativity #bilisme #cars #birds #thewaroncars

  27. What can I use to make this? Hopefully easily (as in, the lines all move in a group if I need to reposition), but honestly I don't care if not — I just want it to know about curves and gaps, positioning nicely by default.

    #maps #diagram #road #roads #freeway #motorway #highway #line #lines #LondonUnderground #tubemap #railway #network #electrical

  28. At #SouthMimms #motorway #servicestation on #M25 just outside #London returning from a visit to relatives for my birthday weekend, having a quick snack and a drink if Pepsi before I deal with the miserable section between Potters Bar and Enfield which seems to be a permanent roadworks zone at the moment. Lots more #EV chargers are appearing (not just Tesla) but alas, it seems Welcome Break have abandoned #recycling bins as I'm sure they had these last time I was here..

  29. #Motorist Fined $110,000 for #Tailgating on #Motorway

    #Switzerland is notorious for its strict driving laws and staggering fines. The #European country is one of the few where fines are calculated according to the taxable income of the offender, to ensure that they are felt by the poor and rich alike.

    odditycentral.com/auto/motoris

  30. @mlanger @PKYo
    Not sure what you would have seen on the video, but the #Litchfield #Canal project is fascinating. Back when a new #motorway was built round #Birmingham the builder was forced to provide an #aqueduct in anticipation of the #volunteers #raisingfunds to rebuild the canal. It sits in mid-air to this day. I drive under it regularly. Read more at:
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichfi

  31. I had a look at the area myself and TBH this seems like a load of middle class #NIMBY s - the #M25 #motorway service station in #Essex would take up a relatively small area of "green belt" space (compared to how much actually exists), and is genuinely useful for those driving long distances especially for those who have another few hours journey left along the # A12 / #A14

    essexlive.news/news/essex-news

  32. Fen Lane in North #Ockendon near #Upminster -this point is the most Eastern part of Greater #London - 3,5 km away from the #M25 #motorway (which is not the exact border of Greater London!). Beyond this point you have crossed into #Thurrock #Essex (and are imediately greeted with a sign from the #Police warning that #ANPR cameras are in operation) #UK #Roads #Transport #Geography

  33. Heute vor 100 Jahren eröffnete mit dem Teilstück zwischen #Mailand und #Varese der späteren #Autostrada dei Laghi (A8) die erste fertiggestellte reine #Autostraße Europas. Aus diesem Anlass erinnern wir an unsere #WerkstattGeschichte 21/1998 "Netzwerk Autobahn" (Thementeil hg. v. Burghard Ciesla)
    werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

    @histodons @historikerinnen

    #histodons #Verkehrsgeschichte #TrafficHistory #Infrastrukturgeschichte #Technikgeschichte #HistSTS #Highway #Motorway #Autobahn

  34. Another side of Watford Gap.
    If you stop at the Northbound Watford Gap Services, walk past the lorry park, up the little slip road, and peer over the bridge to the left. Watford Gap is a route for motorway, canal and (a little further over) railway.
    #photography #WatfordGap #canal #motorway