Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been charged with drink driving and failing to co-operate with police after a car crash in April. The 29-year-old was arrested after a grey Mercedes A Class crashed into a tree in Hermitage, Berkshire. Thames Valley Police said he has been charged with one count of driving a motor vehicle...
A motorcyclist in his 60s has suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle crash on a Devon A-road. A silver BMW motorbike and a white Peugeot 2008 collided on the A3052 at Boshill Cross in Colyford at about 14:20 BST on Monday. The biker was taken to hospital with serious injuries. An investigation is ongoing and...
Anna Varle BBC South West health correspondent BBC Prof Tim Nutbeam said speed could improve the chances of survival and slow “methods weren’t reducing spinal movement – they were just slow” Fewer crash victims are being cut free from vehicles since a Devon doctor’s research led to changes in national guidance for trauma care. Prof...
A woman has been taken to hospital after a crash on the bridge between Devon and Cornwall. The single-vehicle crash happened near to the toll booths on the Plymouth side of the Tamar Bridge shortly before 10:00 BST, Devon and Cornwall Police said. The force said a woman had been taken to hospital as a...
A man has died after a crash involving a single car on Sunday morning, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said emergency services were called about 05:05 BST to an incident in the Glynn Valley near Doublebois in Cornwall. Police said the driver of a Ford C-Max, a man in his 40s from Plymouth,...
BBC Chef Aldo Zilli, left, and his wife Nichola, right, are calling for tighter e-bike regulations after Nikki’s mother Maureen, centre, was seriously injured while crossing the road When 83-year-old Maureen Welch set off for her weekly aqua aerobics class in October, she had no idea that her life was about to drastically change. As...
BBC Sport’s Isa Guha reflects on Rishabh Pant’s long road back to a full recovery following a serious car crash in 2022 after the India vice-captain scored a superb century against England on day two of the first Test at Headingley. FOLLOW LIVE: England v India first Test – day two Available to UK users...
India’s Rishabh Pant says “emotion will be high” for his team and country in the first Test against England following the Air India plane crash last week. Read full article at source...
Controversial Kenyan televangelist Gilbert Deya, who claimed he created miraculous pregnancies, has died in a road crash. Police told local media that Deya died on the spot on Tuesday evening after his vehicle was involved in an accident with a university bus and another vehicle near Kisumu town in western Kenya. At least 30 other...
A motorcycle rider has been taken to hospital following a collision with a deer in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to the crash on the westbound side of the A38 near Manadon, at about 20:50 BST on Tuesday. The force said the man suffered minor injuries but the deer, which had...
Reuters The Air India Boeing 787, that crashed in Ahmedabad last week, seen here over Melbourne in December Less than 40 seconds. That’s how long Air India Flight 171 was airborne before it plunged into a densely populated neighbourhood in Ahmedabad in one of India’s rarest aviation disasters in recent memory. Investigators now face the...
A 23-year-old motorcyclist has died in a collision in Devon, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police were called to the crash on a road between Youldon Moor Cross and Holsworthy Beacon at about 17:30 BST on Monday. The incident involved a red Suzuki motorbike and a white Ford Ranger pickup truck. The force has...
The family of three Britons who died in the Air India plane crash are calling on the UK government to provide more support in India. Akeel Nanabawa, Hannaa Vorajee and Sara Nanabawa, aged four, were returning home to Gloucester when their plane ploughed into a residential area in Ahmedabad on Thursday. Akeel’s brother, Hamzah, said...
Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials have said. According to local media reports, the aircraft was flying from the state capital, Dehradun, to a popular pilgrimage site in the Himalayan mountains. It is understood that rescue teams were immediately dispatched and a coordinated operation to...
Doctors in India say 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of Thursday’s plane crash in Ahmedabad. The London-bound aircraft crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off killing all but one of the 242 passengers, a 40-year-old British man. Officials have been trying to establish how many people were killed on the ground...