Possibly due to a sudden dust storm, 5 HGVs, 5 vans and 32 passenger cars collided in a pileup on the M1 motorway in Hungary on Saturday early afternoon. Police have initiated a criminal investigation to find out the cause and the circumstances of the accident.

5 HGVs and 37 other vehicles piled up in Hungarian motorway accident, police start criminal investigation

A 52-year-old HGV driver died last weekend at Ghent port. It is believed the accident occurred because he had forgotten to apply the handbrake.

HGV driver’s tragic death thought to be caused by failure to apply handbrake

Winter has swept across Europe in recent days resulting in many lorry drivers ending up in several-hours-long standstills on motorways caused by snow and accidents. Meanwhile, in the UK, English councils are “redeploying" staff amid a gritter lorry driver shortage.

HGV driver injured in one of many accidents on Europe’s snow-hit roads

Two rear tyres escaped from the axles of a lorry while the vehicle was travelling in a residential area, a German police department has reported.

HGV loses two tyres while driving in residential area

A bridge collapsed in Pangasinan, the Philippines, last Thursday when two loaded lorries were attempting to cross the river. According to the local major, the reason for the accident was that the vehicles were overloaded. Four people were injured.

Bridge collapses under weight of overloaded HGVs, injuring 4

German police are searching for a lorry driver who parked their semi-trailer so close to the railway tracks that a rail-mounted container crane crashed into it. Both the trailer and the container were seriously damaged.

Rail-mounted crane crashes into dangerously parked semi-trailer

Some photos of a lorry “sitting” on its rear end went viral on the internet in Slovakia on Tuesday after the police shared details of a road closure with the title “Transformer appeared in Most near Bratislava."

Insufficient cargo securing turns lorry into “Transformer”

Serious accident involving 4 HGVs injures 2 and results in 12-hour road closure

“It was a bad choice,” says the lorry driver who killed three people in a horrific crash last year. The driver was speaking in a BBC documentary about the accident, which he caused by browsing dating sites on his phone while he was behind the wheel. Titled “Deadly Browsing – The Lorry Driver,” the documentary was co-produced by Durham police with the aim of helping people understand that no matter how good a driver someone thinks they are, they must not choose their mobile ahead of safety.

HGV driver responsible for fatal accident talks from prison in hard-hitting BBC documentary

Five people died, while more than ten were injured after a train derailed when a pick-up truck crashed into it a railway crossing in Hungary on Tuesday morning. The warning lights of the barrier at the railroad crossing were fully operating when the accident happened.