A man deliberately caused an accident while driving along a motorway in an attempt to kill his wife and himself on New Year's Day. Only extremely lucky circumstances meant they both walked away unharmed, police said.

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ISLAMABAD: If you want a slice of peace and stability in a country with a reputation for violence and chaos, try Pakistan's M2 motorway.

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Belgian authorities warn of fake police officers who stop drivers on the Brussels–Luxembourg motorway and force them to hand over their money.

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Insurers have been stung for a 110,000 GBP motorway prang - after a lorry driver was attacked by a wasp. Trucker Heinz Langer, 23, overturned his HGV after he was stung on the thigh by the insect and suffered a severe allergic reaction.

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Eighteen tonnes of eggs went over-easy on the Autobahn in northern Brandenburg after a truck overturned early Monday morning.

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A whale skeleton, thought to be around 10,000 years-old, has been uncovered during construction of the E6 motorway near Strömstad in western Sweden.

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Officers managed to save some 4,200 trout from certain death on the autobahn after an emergency call from a truck driver, Bavarian police reported on Wednesday.

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Excerpt: Lighting will be turned off late at night on hundreds of miles of motorway despite an admission from the Highways Agency that a small increase in crashes is the likely result.

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A Romanian truck driver is being hunted by police after releasing a video of himself dancing in his cab as he thunders along a motorway.

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A frantic call to police reporting a car with a pair of masked bandits caused a scare on the A3 motorway, but they turned out to be a couple who had caught a cold, Erlangen police reported on Monday.

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Part of the M42 is shut after a six-vehicle crash sent marshmallows and beer spilling out onto the carriageway.

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When horrified motorists came across a huge trail of blood on a motorway in Switzerland, there could be only one logical explanation: a big monster had been shot dead and dragged away.

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A busy motorway was forced to close for more than five hours in China after a lorry carrying 19 tonnes of fresh, live fish flipped over.

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Five people were killed when their car caught fire in a collision with three lorries and another car on a motorway. Two adults and what is thought to be three children, died in Monday night's crash on the M6 in Cheshire.

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Shocking images were released on Thursday night of two Swedish sisters throwing themselves into oncoming motorway traffic in the UK.

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Two women, twin sisters from Sweden, ran in front of oncoming traffic after wrestling with the British police. Hilarious !!

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A skateboarding extreme sportsman alarmed police by barreling down a stretch of the German autobahn at 100 kilometers per hour. The stunt made him a YouTube star and also the target of prosecutors. Now, though, it looks like he might escape without punishment.

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German police are trying to track down a skateboarder who sped down a steep stretch of motorway at 62mph (100kmh).

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For years, Germans have worried that speed limits may be coming for the autobahn. On Wednesday, the first state-wide slowdown went into effect. Are more such regulations on the way?

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The world's biggest ring road - Who made the decisions that meant trouble from day-1

Officially named the London Orbital, nicknamed the 'Road to Hell', and frequently derided as nothing more than a very big car park, this is London's outermost beltway.

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At least six cows wandered up to two miles along a motorway after a cattle truck crashed into the central reservation and overturned. The accident happened on the M73, near Baillieston, on the outskirts of Glasgow, at about 1800 BST.

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Around 60 cars have been involved in a motorway crash, killing one person and seriously injuring five others in Austria today.

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At least one person was killed and several seriously injured in a pile-up of around 60 vehicles on Austria's main east-west highway on Tuesday, local authorities said.

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A 33-year-old mother of two was killed on Sunday when an unknown person threw a wooden block from a motorway bridge. The block crashed through the windshield and hit the woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

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A woman with a clinical fear of driving was banned and ordered to re-take her test yesterday after police caught her crawling down a motorway at 10mph.

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