Motorists face more than 18 months of hold-ups during work to open a fourth lane of the M6 on a 10-mile stretch of the motorway from this June, it can be revealed today.

Nine out of 10 sets of roadworks along the country’s motorways were being lifted today as millions of commuters make their Easter holiday getaways.

A fruit packer from the Black Country who cheated death in an M5 horror crash has told how he blacked out and woke up in hospital to discover his brother had died.

A man from Smethwick who died following a horror crash on the M5 has today been named as father of three Liaquat Ali.

A driver whose lorry hit the back of a coach on the M5 in thick fog, killing a passenger and injuring more than 40, has died in hospital.

One person died and 37 people were injured today after a lorry and a bus crashed on the M5 in thick fog.

Police set up a road block and rammed an 80-year-old pensioner’s car after spotting him driving “eratically and dangerously” the wrong way down the M42 and M5 motorways through the Midlands.

Around 17 drivers a day have been caught speeding on just seven miles of the M5 since the start of a £9.32 million roadworks scheme, it emerged today.

Motorists were today facing months of hold-ups as several sets of roadworks kicked off across the Black Country and South Staffordshire.

A man has died after falling from the road bridge onto the motorway around junction one of the M5 near West Bromwich today.