Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Air ambulance called and major road closed off for hours amid reports of 'person hit by HGV'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn air ambulance was called to Trafford on Monday (March 4) and a major road was closed amid reports of a person being struck by a HGV.
Police blocked off Manchester Road (A56), near the Trafford College, in Timperley, for a number of hours following the reported collision, that has not yet been confirmed by police.
One witness who lives beside the scene reported seeing a person lying in the road in front of the heavy goods lorry, which was pictured in within the cordon as police conducted investigations into the afternoon. READ MORE How one 'faulty valve' sparked a major incident in Trafford An air ambulance was also scrambled to the scene, landing in a grassed area just off Salisbury Road.
A number of police vehicles were pictured at the scene as the road was closed at around 12pm. A number of people reported that somebody had been hit by the vehicle, and that the road was closed from the junction of Sinderland Road for a number of hours with traffic diverted.
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