Three cadets die in artic collision
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• A Spanish haulier was arrested after an accident in which three boys died and seven people were seriously injured on the Al in Cambridgeshire this week.
The teenage boys were travelling in a coach with 33 other air cadets and four adults when it collided with two lorries near Peterborough just before 21:30hrs on Monday.
The Spanish Myer of one of the 38tonne artics was arrested on suspicion of driving without due care and attention.
Two people were declared dead at the scene and a third died later in Peterborough District Hospital.
A Cambridgeshire police spokesman said: "An English lorry, a foreign lorry and the RAF coach were involved in the accklefrt."
The accident is
bound to focus attention on the increasing number of foreign vehicles entering the UK and the difficulties in policing them On average only 300 foreign trucks are checked for hours and overloading offences each year while the latest figures say that 932,000 foreign trucks travelled in the UK between March 1999 and March 2000.
The VI says it checks foreign trucks when its intelligence or the trucks' appearance suggest a passible offence.
• Eight people were killed and 23 injured in northern Austria on Monday when a coach collided with a truck The antic hit the double-decker coach 45 miles west of the Austrian capital. The cause of the accident is being investigated.