Police close Blackburn Road after a crash, issuing a warning
Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 4:38 p.m. GMT+111-min Galligreaves Way in Blackburn has been closed due to a crash i>(Google Image)</i>
Galligreaves Way in Blackburn has been closed due to a collision. (Google Image)
Police have advised motorists to seek alternate routes after a collision.
Galligreaves Way in Blackburn has been closed between Dickinson Close and Heatley Close while police investigate the incident.
Officers have been contacted for more information.
“There is a road closure in place on Galligreaves Way in Blackburn, closed from Dickinson Close up to Heatley Close due to a road traffic collision,” a police spokesperson said.
“When traveling, please take alternate routes.”
According to an AA Traffic and Travel spokeswoman, traffic is moving smoothly.
“Road closed,” said a spokeswoman.
On Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., accused Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of “pushing a government shutdown” to “help him politically.”
“The one person who is really pushing for a government shutdown is Chuck Schumer, and this is something he thinks would help him politically as he tries to hang on to the U.S. Senate,” Blackburn said on Sunday.
Schumer would have a “very difficult” and “probably impossible” time retaining the Democratic majority in 2024, according to Blackburn.
Senate Democrats currently retain a two-seat majority and will have to defend 23 seats in next year’s election, including several in conservative areas. Republicans, on the other hand, will be defending ten seats in the House of Representatives.
The Tennessee senator’s remarks come as the Senate returns from its August recess on Tuesday with a long list of tasks to do — including 12 appropriations bills — before a potential government shutdown on Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
“But what we do know is that Senate Republicans and House Republicans are working hard to get spending bills passed because this is how we take power away from the White House,” she said.
Meanwhile, Schumer said in a “Dear Colleague” letter Friday that the government “cannot afford the brinkmanship or hostage-taking we saw earlier this year from House Republicans when they pushed our country to the brink of default to appease the most extreme elements.”
“The only way to avoid a government shutdown is through bipartisanship, so I have urged House Republican leadership to follow the Senate’s lead and pass bipartisan appropriations bills,” he wrote.
When Congress adjourned at the end of July, the Senate Appropriations Committee had enacted 12 distinct budget bills with bipartisan backing that would fund the majority of government operations into 2024. However, their Republican counterparts in the House Appropriations Committee used primarily partisan legislation.
