Booze and drug-fuelled driver abandoned injured passenger after horror high speed crash

Salford after reports of a serious crash involving a pedestrian. Police were called to Worsley Road at 7.30pm on Tuesday (January 26) to reports of a collision.A cordon has been in place between Walker Road and the Stablefold for a number of hours.Seven police cars are at the scene and have marked the road with orange cones and police tape.Officers from the Serious Collision Unit are investigating what has happened.Worsley Road has been closed and diversions are in place.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A driver escaped serious injury after a group of youths threw bricks from a motorway fly-over.The motorist was driving westbound on the M8 at Harthill Services at around 9.05pm on Friday, January 22, when the objects were thrown.Thankfully the driver escaped with no injuries although he was understandably shaken by the incident.Police are appealing to the public for any information they may have in a bid to

hospital after his tractor skidded out of control on an icy road in Fife. Emergency services were called to the scene on the A921, near Otterston Loch, shortly before 1pm on Saturday, January 23.

Oban. Dog lover Margaret Smith was struck by a Citroen Berlingo van as she walked in Soroba Road.

direct to your inbox Police have released the image of a man they’d like to speak to in regards to a robbery that occurred outside of a venue in Manchester’s gay village last month.

A75.Emergency services raced to the scene between Newton Stewart and Stranraer at 1.10pm on Monday January 18 after a collision between a car and a lorry.The road is currently closed westbound at Barlae and is expected to remain shut for some time.People are being urged to avoid the area and remain patient if they are caught in traffic.A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “We received a call today at 1304 hours to attend a road traffic collision on the A75."We dispatched two

Eccles, this morning (Friday, January 15).

direct to your inboxA driver was caught on Deansgate with stolen taxi plates on his Ford Mondeo - before he led police on a 20-minute high-speed chase. Anas Abuhdaima, 26, initially stopped for officers in Manchester city centre after they pulled him over.

police on a high speed chase so dangerous that force management told officers to stop pursuing for their own safety. Provisional licence holder Liam Thornber, 18, almost crashed several times as he lost control and mounted the verge in the cannabis-filled Audi A3.

direct to your inboxThe Chase's newest quizzer has addressed fans concerns that he has been 'sacked' after being 'missing' from the show.New Chaser Darragh 'the Menace' Ennis was introduced last year and made his debut in November. But following recent episodes, fans of the ITV quiz show were questioning his whereabouts after not being seen for a while.

Father-of-one Adam Waring, 31, grabbed the canister - which was being used to clean shopping baskets and trolleys - at the entrance before unleashing it at shoppers.The spray hit a number of victims, including a child, at the Ellesmere shopping centre branch of Tesco in Walkden, Salford.Waring, a delivery driver from Bolton, has now been jailed.A court heard he shouted 'don't you try and take this f***ing bottle off me, they've got chemicals', before eventually fleeing the store.An off-duty

drinking.Thomas Drew, 34, caused one young girl to beg police to take him away because he was scaring her and other youngsters.Paisley Sheriff Court heard when Drew was lifted by cops, he turned violent, assaulting two police support officers by kicking each of them.Procurator fiscal depute Abbas Ali told the court it was Drew himself who first contacted police on July 31 last year, claiming his partner Melissa Kelly had damaged his car.However when cops attended the house at Westwood Gardens,

sexual abuse images when high on drink and drugs. Gareth Sumner pleaded guilty before a court and claimed he "descended" into paedophilia after his wife died of cancer.Sumner married his wife Laura Pemberton, 29, the day before she dies in June 2010, just six weeks after being told she had a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

direct to your inboxA drug-fuelled dangerous driver who killed a teenage girl as she walked to school tried to blame the child.Kevin Pryce, 45, who tested positive for cocaine and cannabis, claimed 14-year-old Mia Strothers had stepped out into the road before he hit her.But Pryce was 'absolutely flying' while driving at 57mph in a 30mph zone, and was in a BMW which he knew had faulty brakes.

Five people linked to an armed robbery of a marijuana dispensary in Portland, Ore., on Friday have been taken into custody, according to reports. The arrests followed a high-speed chase on Interstate 84 that saw the fleeing vehicle reach speeds of 100 miles per hour, FOX 12 of Oregon reported.