lorry
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A railway bridge named as the most bashed in Britain has been struck by a lorry for the second time in two days.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Dashcam video captured the dramatic moment a lorry slammed into an overpass in New York.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Khan arrived in the UK in a back of a lorry in 2015, Nottingham Crown Court heard, and faces automatic deportation to Afghanistan after he has served two thirds of his sentence.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It sparked a two-day search through a "mountain of waste" which had been collected by a bin lorry, the head of the refuse company, Roberto Nicola Toscano, told Italian news agency Ansa.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
On the tarmac, a lorry was repairing the bomb craters, filling them in with gravel.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This rises to 257 when considering other migration-related deaths in the area, such as accidents involving people trying to board lorries bound for the UK, it added.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
At almost every petrol station we passed there was a queue of cars and lorries.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The charity said Swift's donation had allowed them to buy one-and-a-half articulated lorries full of food.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The busy operation has to run like clockwork, as about 200 lorries will arrive to collect products every day.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Around the abandoned lorries they passed, supplies had been scattered by troops looking for food or drink or petrol.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
