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Police say death of person on M6 not suspicious
Four cars and two heavy goods vehicles struck a pedestrian on the M6, causing a 20-hour closure for forensic investigation, police said.
- At around 2.50am on Saturday, March 7, police attended a serious collision on the M6 between junctions 21 and 21A, where officers found a pedestrian dead at the scene.
- Cheshire Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious and a case file will be prepared for the coroner, issuing a further statement on March 8, 2026.
- Inrix Traffic Management reported four cars and two HGVs were involved, while Lancashire Police closed a section between junctions 28 and 30 about 25 miles north.
- Highways England urged drivers and road users to delay or avoid the area as traffic was turned around at the closure point and later guided off the motorway and junction 21; Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria police led a multi-force closure causing major disruption.
- The disruption stretched north with closures as far as Leyland, where the carriageway was reopened by 2.45pm, while Cumbria Police closed the slip road to Tebay Services for forensic analysis and impounded an HGV and its curtain-sided trailer.
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leighjournal.co.ukTragic pedestrian death on motorway ‘not treated as suspicious’
The tragic death of a pedestrian on the M6 in Warrington is not being treated as suspicious, Cheshire Police has confirmed.
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