Christmas is upon us again. Let’s set aside the snow for a second (if only such a thing was literally possible, perhaps the queues outside St Pancras station wouldn’t be so long) and focus on an omnipresent festive problem: drunk people getting into cars.Now, I know that drunken drivers ... [More]

Police have suggested that the death of a cyclist in Durham was not due to a road accident, but was more likely to have been the result of natural causes.The man, who was estimated to have been in his 40s, was found by a fellow cyclist making his way to work on a remote path near a quarry at Quarrin... [More]

A YOUNG footballer said to have a bright future ahead of him has been killed in a road traffic accident – just an hour before he was due to train with his new club. The Citroen in which Callum MacKinnon was travelling crashed into a tree along the B4020 Shilton Road, between Burford and Carte... [More]

An inquest has found that the death of a Manx woman was caused by an unavoidable road traffic accident. Drusilla ‘Dru’ Jane Hamm suffered from a cardiac arrhythmia, which caused her to collapse while she was in the middle of a road near the Hop Garden pub, in Santon, Isle of Man, on Nov... [More]

The senior coroner for Northern Ireland wants a woman who attacked paramedics as they helped a dying girl to be prosecuted. Paul Leckey said “It is quite disgraceful and totally unwarranted that emergency services are subjected to attacks as they try to help people. “Whoever did this... [More]