Featherstone: Van stolen while driver made deliveries

1 December 2021

A delivery driver's van has been stolen while they dropped off parcels in Staffordshire.

A man got out of another van and took the white Renault Trafic on Whitgreave Avenue, Featherstone, at about 15:00 GMT on Monday.

The stolen van was then seen on a trailer on the M6 between Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford, Staffordshire Police said.

It was later found abandoned in Wolverhampton.

In a separate case, also on Monday afternoon, a man tried to steal a white Mercedes Sprinter van on Coppice Lane, Cheslyn Hay.

However the driver, who had got out, had taken the keys with him, officers said.

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