02/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

The headlines from BBC Look North this Thursday night.

A major road is shut after a suspected stolen car drives

off from police and crashes into a level crossing

The road remains closed and a man is in serious condition in hospital.

The four hundred thousand pound pay-off to the family of a Hull

woman who died 11 years after botched heart surgery.

Another damning report for Humberside Police -

inspectors say the force is failing vulnerable victims of

An unsettled few days, join me for the updated forecast.

A major road through Lincolnshire remains closed tonight suspected

stolen car has crashed into a level crossing in Lincolnshire

It happened on the A158 coast road in Langworth.

No train was involved in the accident but rail services

between Lincoln and Grimsby have been affected.

The driver sustained serious injuries and has been

Well, it was 2:30pm and the Vauxhall Corsa overtook traffic waiting at

the barrier, it crashed into the barrier, hit the house behind me

before crashing into the Royal Mail lorry waiting on the opposite side.

The police tell us they believe the vehicle had been stolen from a

neighbouring county and fails to stop. The IPCC has been notified of

this incident. The barriers were down because a train was approaching

the crossing. Luckily, it stopped before the incident but I spoke to a

passenger on the train. The police came on board the train and said

they had to inspect the tracks because they did not know if the

rails were bent or we could continue to Lincoln. There were an emergency

services, the air ambulance, fire brigade and if we were a few seconds

ahead, it would have hit the train. How long to clear the road?

Engineers have been working here all afternoon and evening and got the

barriers back in place and they are inspecting the house to see if it is

structurally sound. Police tell me they are anxious to get the road

reopened because it is a major route to Lincolnshire. The driver of the

suspected stolen car, he was airlifted to hospital and remains in

condition. Victoria, thank you. 400 thousand pounds has been paid

to the family of a young woman from Hull who died eleven years

after botched heart surgery. Carrie Wright's brain was starved

of oxygen during the operation Carrie Wright's family

say she was determined to live her life to the full,

despite suffering brain damage during an operation that made

everyday tasks like boarding a bus In 2003, aged just nine,

she underwent heart surgery in Leeds but mistakes were made that

left her unable to walk, barely able to talk

and with curvature of the spine Carrie spent years rebuilding her

life but in 2014 died unexpectedly from pneumonia and sepsis,

infections she was vulnerable Words cannot describe how

much I miss our girl. Carrie's surgery was carried

out by Nihal Weerasena, The procedure involved putting

Carrie into circulatory arrest, At the time it was recommended

for no more than 45 minutes but Carrie spent two hours in this

state during which time her brain Whether it was arrogance,

thinking he could carry on and would still be able

to perform it safely? In January, Nihal Weerasena

was struck off the medical register as a result of failings in the care

he provided to six other patients at the Leeds General infirmary

between 2008 and 2012. The Medical Practitioner's Tribunal

service ruled he had shown reckless Leeds Teaching Hospitals has

apologised to Carrie's family and They say they deeply regret

that they failed to offer the standard of care

that she and her family Carrie's family have received

?430,000 but say it has little meaning as the toll

of losing their daughter Humberside Police is routinely

failing vulnerable victims of crime, according to a report

by the police watchdog. It was also told to improve work

to reduce re-offending and that The HMIC findings from an inspection

carried out last year come just over a week after the Chief Constable,

Justine Curran left the force. I spoke to the new acting chief

constable. I asked if he agreed the force requires improvement.

I asked if he agreed the force requires improvement.

Of course were disappointed but we do not argue with it.

There are areas we need to improve on but we are pleased HMIC

Why has the force not improved since last year?

You will say improvements have been made since but the chief constable

told me that last year and here we are again.

HMIC will say improvements have been made and we are rated as good

in some important areas around preventing crime, tackling

anti-social behaviour and keeping people safe and other key areas

The crime commission says it is a failure of leadership

at the highest level, that is not just the departing chief

Of course, absolutely and we are not frightened

of accountability and we share a collective resonsibility.

We are committed to making sure we work with the staff we have got

who do really tremendous things on a daily basis to ensure we put it

right and we all ready have fixed that and it has been acknowledged.

Was the previous chief constable the wrong person for the job?

Justine Curran was a committed and dedicated public servant.

Acting Chief Constable Garry Forsyth from Humberside Police,

and Lincolnshire Police were rated as good in the same inspections.

The changing tidal patterns over the past 30 years have created

a new island in the middle of the Humber.

It's been named Whitton Island and has become home

It will be protected by the RSPB and turned into a nature reserve.

Our environment correspondent Paul Murphy reports.

The RSPB describes it as island paradise for wildlife.

Just off the north bank, here in the upper reaches

of the Humber Estuary, lies Whitton Island,

Britain's newest nature reserve, looking at its best

We have got fantastic views of Marsh Harrier...

We can't go on it just yet but at the nearby Blacktoft Sands

reserve they're excited to be taking control of Whitton.

Islands are just great refuges for wildlife.

Things like the pink-footed geese that come in winter.

We get up to 2% of the world's population.

Breeding avocets, breeding Marsh Harriers,

You know, it is all part of trying to make things better along

Whitton Island has only existed for around 30 years.

Starting as a mudflat, it slowly formed as the shifting sands

It's now more than a mile long and shows every

And as it grows so does its bird population.

You get a lot of birds from Arctic areas coming into winter.

Then there is a big change around and you get all the summer migrants

coming up from Africa, areas like that.

Any form of extension to this area is bound to be

We've had special permission to film above this sensitive area,

which the RSPB is now leasing from Associated British Ports.

Habitat improvement work will begin later in the year to make Whitton

even more attractive to visiting birds.

Some fantastic pictures taken from an aerial camera. There are more on

our Facebook page. Now, the forecast for Friday, the details come from

Paul. Conditions are quieting down, it was quite windy but it is easing.

Raina tomorrow after a largely dry start. Friday afternoon, more rain

potentially on Saturday. The wind continues to ease, there might be a

touch of ground frost, lowest temperatures around to and through

four. Bright mist first thing, a dry start, we will see rain through the

morning into South Lincolnshire, the rest of the region turns wet late in

the morning and into the afternoon. It turns wet across all parts.

Temperatures coming in at 7 degrees. Further ahead, more rain to come on

Friday, Saturday May be quite wet as the weather front produces more

rain, especially across eastern parts of the area. Something better

on Sunday, brighter skies. That is it from us. Thank you for watching.

We are back in the morning and I am back tomorrow night at 6:30pm.

Goodbye for now. weekend, we have more rain in the

forecast. Rain at times this weekend, not all the time.

Good evening. Things are turning more unsettled today was not bad.

The sun was setting the moon was putting in appearance, this lovely