A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison for causing the death of a 25-year-old man and causing serious injury to a 30-year-old woman in Gorton in December last year.

On 5 December at 11.40pm Ryan McElroy was driving a Vauxhall Crossland at speed on Mount Road in Gorton, Manchester, when he collided with a Vauxhall Insignia which was performing a U-turn on the road.

An HGV driver has been jailed for two years today (13 January 2023) at Swindon Crown Court after he ploughed into the back of a stationary vehicle on the M4, causing the death of Craig Davies.

Shane Davies, aged 59 and from Swansea, was driving a Volvo heavy articulated lorry along the westbound carriageway between junctions 15 and 16 of the M4 in the very early hours of the morning on 16 March 2020, when he collided with an Iveco Ford lorry that had broken down on the hard shoulder.

A man from Basingstoke was sentenced on 11 January 2023 for dangerous driving when he drove at police officers to avoid being arrested.

Simon Hardy, 37, was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, at Winchester Crown Court.

He was also disqualified from driving for 12 months and ordered to undertake 20 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days, with a six month alcohol treatment requirement.