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October 21 – United Kingdom – A coach collided with stationary traffic due to construction work on the M6 motorway in Lancashire, between Preston and Lancaster, killing 13 people. [ 106 ] November 5 – Italy – A bus carrying mostly students and workers from Leonforte to Catania skidded off a bridge, killing 15 and injuring six.
The M6 then heads north past Wigan, Preston and Lancaster. [3] After the latter two cities it passes through Cumbria with some parts very close to the edge of the Lake District with a short stretch within the national park boundaries and then passes Carlisle on its way to Gretna , [ 4 ] before the motorway becomes the A74(M) a few hundred ...
The Preston Bypass was the United Kingdom's first motorway, opened in 1958.It was designed and engineered by Lancashire County Council surveyor James Drake as part of a larger initiative to create a north-south motorway network that would later form part of the M6 motorway.
At least nine Kentucky school districts and a community college campus closed Monday as police continued the search for the man suspected of shooting five people along Interstate 75 in southern ...
Three suspects have been taken into custody after a shooting in Bath County left one man dead, according to Kentucky State Police. The Eastern Kentucky shooting happened shortly before 6 a.m ...
Lancaster (Forton) services is a motorway service station, between junctions 32 and 33 of the M6 motorway in England. The nearest city is Lancaster , about 7 miles (11 km) to the north. The site is operated by Moto .
Stanford, originally known as St. Asaph, is 10 miles south of Lancaster. It too was founded in 1775. The oldest permanent settlement in Kentucky, Harrodsburg, was founded in 1774 and is 18 miles to the west. Garrard's present day courthouse is one of the oldest courthouses in Kentucky in continuous use.
December 15, 1976: Was involved in a head-on collision in March 1975, died due to his injuries on December 15, 1976. [268] Special Officer Elliott S. Johnson: Thomaston, Maine Police Department: September 1, 1973: Struck by a vehicle driven by a prison escapee at a roadblock. [269] Deputy Sheriff John Tileston Downes: Washington County, Maine ...