Officers were called to the scene on the M6 southbound between junction 27 and 26, near Wigan, at just before 1.30am on the morning of Friday August 16. The motorway was closed well into the following afternoon as police and paramedics went about their work. A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said: “At around 1.25am this…
Last night we were called to reports of a man on the hard shoulder on the M56, between junction 6 and 5. At around 9pm, it’s believed that an articulated vehicle was travelling along the M56 towards Manchester when it collided with a pedestrian. Sadly, despite the best efforts of emergency services, the pedestrian, a…
The moment a truck caught fire on the road is captured in dramatic camera footage. On Wednesday, the HGV caught fire on the M56’s eastbound carriageway between J14 for Hapsford and J12 for Runcorn. The highway was closed on both sides, and emergency personnel, including police and paramedics, were summoned to the area. Drivers were…
Three murder investigations have been launched following a weekend of violence in Greater Manchester. Three men died in Timperley, Bury and Levenshulme over the weekend as emergency services attended a number of serious incidents across the borough. Emergency services were first called out in the early hours of Saturday (July 8) to Silver Street in…
After being hit by a lorry on the M56 motorway, a man has passed away. Yesterday evening, August 14, police were initially called to the motorway in response to’reports of a guy on the hard shoulder’ near the Manchester Airport exit, between junctions six and five. The 42-year-old pedestrian is thought to have been hit…
A man wanted for fatally stabbing a woman who was pushing her baby in a pram is on bail for assaulting and threatening to kill her, it has emerged. A police manhunt is under way for Habibur Masum who is suspected of the murder of 27-year-old Kulsuma Akter. Ms Akter was stabbed several times in…
After being hit by a lorry on the M56 motorway, a man has passed away. Yesterday evening, police were initially called to the motorway in response to’reports of a man on the hard shoulder’ near the Manchester Airport exit, between junctions six and five. The 42-year-old pedestrian is thought to have been hit by a…
On a motorway, a man was sadly killed after being hit by a truck. There were complaints of a “man on the hard shoulder” Wednesday night, August 14, prompting emergency personnel to be dispatched to the M56 near Manchester Airport. At approximately 9 p.m., the guy, a 42-year-old pedestrian, is thought to have been hit…
A guy appears to punch two female police officers to the ground in newly released film from the turmoil at Manchester Airport, just moments before another officer ‘kicked and stamped on a man’s head’. The treatment of Fahir and Amaad Khan by Greater Manchester Police prompted nights of protests and outrage when a video of…
On Monday, July 15, at Wigan, a Volvo caught fire along the side of the road, injuring a father and a child with burns. Around 12.30 p.m., police, paramedics, and fire departments hurried to the scene of the spectacular fire on Atherton Road in the Wigan neighbourhood of Hindley. Two people who were inside the…