The woman, in her 20s, was the only one to escape without injuries in the crash, according to official sources. She is charged with causing the accident that had fatal consequences for her passengers, and was convicted of gross negligence in traffic, illegal driving, causing another's death, and causing bodily injury. On the night of June 6, four people were traveling in a car after attending an introduction course for a new job when the accident happened, officials reported. They had all been on a course outside Gävle when they decided during the night to go into town to eat food. During the trial, the woman claimed it was chaotic in the car and that the passengers pressured her to drive faster. She drove at 154 kilometers per hour on a road where the allowed speed is 70 kilometers per hour, crashing into a tree and a stone, killing two men and seriously injuring a woman. The driver lacked a driver's license at the time and is said to have driven up to 154 kilometers per hour on a 70 km/h road, leading to her sentence of one year and ten months in prison.
In California, two people were killed in a head-on collision on Monday involving a wrong-way driver. The three-vehicle collision occurred on White Rock Road near Prairie City Road south of Highway 50 around 8:20 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP officials reported the wrong-way vehicle was driven by a 41-year-old man traveling west on eastbound White Rock Road when it crashed into a vehicle driven by a 21-year-old woman. The wrong-way driver and the 21-year-old woman were both killed in the crash, with another eastbound vehicle traveling behind the woman also becoming involved and spinning out of control. Witnesses reported that the wrong-way driver was speeding around 80 to 100 mph just before the collision occurred. The driver of the third vehicle suffered minor to moderate injuries, according to the CHP. CHP is currently investigating the collision and why the wrong-way driver was driving recklessly, with specific factors leading to his actions still under review.
The CHP and the California Department of Transportation created a pilot program that aims to prevent future incidences of wrong-way driving. The wrong-way driver prevention pilot program will focus on U.S. Route 50, Interstate 5 and Interstate 80. The project will install wrong-way traffic signs with an advanced monitoring system that will alert CHP and Caltrans whenever a vehicle is driving in the wrong lane. The signs will be equipped with cameras that take photographs of the vehicle for law enforcement to use. It also includes the installment of pavement markers that flash to alert a driver if he or she is traveling in the wrong direction.
In a separate incident in San Leandro, two people died and two California Highway Patrol officers were injured when a pair of crashes ended a pursuit early Saturday morning, authorities said. Just before 3:45 a.m., CHP officers assigned to the Dublin area attempted to stop the driver of a white Mercedes sedan, which they say was traveling at high speeds on westbound Interstate 580, east of Eden Canyon Road in Castro Valley. The driver of the Mercedes took off from officers, beginning a pursuit that continued into San Leandro. CHP officers said the driver tried to exit onto East 14th Street from the westbound Interstate 238, but for unknown reasons, crashed into a sound wall. Two officers in a CHP unit tried to take the same exit and also crashed into the sound wall, the CHP said, though the unit did not crash into the Mercedes. The driver and one passenger in the Mercedes were pronounced dead at the scene, officers said, with a third passenger taken to a nearby hospital with major injuries. Authorities said both CHP officers were taken to a hospital with 'major, non-life-threatening injuries.' The CHP's Golden Gate Division Multi-Disciplinary Accident Investigation Team is investigating the crash, and officials have not released the identities of the two people who died, nor determined the reason for the Mercedes driver's crash.
In Westminster, a woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car hit pedestrians in Argyll Street at around 4:30am on Sunday. A woman in her 30s is in critical condition and a man in his 50s suffered life-changing injuries, while a second woman in her 30s had minor injuries, according to the Metropolitan Police. The driver, a 29-year-old woman, was arrested for attempted murder, grievous bodily harm, dangerous driving, and drink driving. Police say the incident is not being treated as terrorism-related.
In Bury, a woman crashed a car through the wall of JD Gym at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday, injuring a man inside. A man in his 60s was struck by the car and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Greater Manchester Police reported. A woman in her 40s was arrested on suspicion of causing injury by dangerous driving and remained in hospital. JD Gym in Bury said the gym will remain closed until further notice due to the incident.
In the UK, Faye Dawson, 50, from Cheadle, was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for dangerous driving after a crash on March 7 last year. She was driving at 80mph on the wrong side of the road with five passengers, four of whom were injured. She was disqualified from driving for four years and seven months.
Other driving convictions include a 19-year-old woman in Sweden convicted for driving without a license after borrowing her mother's car and causing it to roll on a parking lot. She was ordered to pay 1500 kronor in day fines and 1000 kronor to the crime victim fund. Natalie Alice Shaw, 22, lost her licence for six months after driving off with a road-raging driver gripping her bonnet on the Gold Coast in July 2025. An 86-year-old woman from York was convicted for a motoring offence after accidentally putting an F instead of an S on her car insurance papers. The pensioner paid for a year's insurance cover for her Suzuki Splash car with Swinton Insurance and was prosecuted under the Single Justice Procedure, a fast-track court system introduced in 2015. Magistrate David Pollard at Teesside Magistrates' Court imposed a three-month conditional discharge and ordered her to pay a fee. The DVLA said it will contact the woman to check her paperwork and seek to overturn the conviction if the typo was to blame, with the outcome pending.
On the A14 in the UK, two people have died following a serious collision between a lorry and a van on a major road. Northamptonshire Police confirmed a crash occurred between a white Volkswagen Caddy and an HGV lorry on the westbound carriageway of the A14. The incident took place between Welford and the M1 interchange at Catthorpe on just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday. The passenger in the Volkswagen, a man in his 40s, died at the scene. The driver of the Volkswagen, a man in his 20s, was believed to have exited his vehicle but was struck and killed when he entered the eastbound carriageway.
In London, emergency services shut off East Ferry Road, near Crossharbour DLR station, today (October 27) at 2.16pm following a collision. Photographs seen by this paper show a traffic light knocked down with a damaged car next to it. The London Ambulance Service treated three people at the scene, with two of them being taken to hospital – with their condition unknown at this time. East Ferry Road was closed both ways around Pepper Street for hours today, with the 135, D6 and D8 bus routes diverted.
Reactions to these incidents include witnesses reporting a reckless and extremely fast car journey on E22 near Hjärup on the evening of January 20. Legal outcomes and safety measures continue to evolve in response to such traffic tragedies.