{"id":364677,"date":"2026-01-11T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364677\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:05:11","slug":"four-killed-and-five-injured-in-bolton-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364677\/","title":{"rendered":"Four killed and five injured in Bolton road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stewart Whittingham and Rumeana JahangirNorth West<\/p>\n

\"PhilPhil Taylor<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called shortly after 00:45 GMT<\/p>\n

Three teenagers and a man in his 50s were killed in a collision involving a taxi and a car in which five others were also injured, police have said.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said two vehicles were involved in what is understood to have been a head-on crash, which happened at 00:45 GMT in Wigan Road, Bolton.<\/p>\n

The force said three men travelling in a red Seat Leon – two aged 18, the other 19 – including its driver had died. The driver of the Citroen C4 Picasso, believed to be a taxi, was also killed. <\/p>\n

GMP said the five people injured in the crash had been taken to hospital where they were undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n

‘Shocked community’<\/p>\n

The casualties have yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n

But Ayyub Patel, who represents Rumworth ward on Bolton Council, told BBC Radio Manchester<\/a> he had spoken to some of the victims’ “devastated” relatives.<\/p>\n

“The community was waking up to this very sad news,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They are shocked – the mood is sombre.<\/p>\n

“Any loss of life in any family is devastating news and to wake up to such tragic news is more so than expected.<\/p>\n

“If it’s expected, you know what’s coming but if it’s not expected, then obviously it’s a shocking experience.”<\/p>\n

\"PhilPhil Taylor<\/p>\n

Crash scene investigators are trying to establish what happened<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said: “At around 12.50am, three fire engines and the technical response unit attended a crash involving a taxi and a car on Wigan Road, Bolton.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters arrived quickly to make the area safe and used cutting equipment to help remove people from the vehicles before passing them into the care of North West Ambulance Service.<\/p>\n

“Greater Manchester Police assisted with cordoning the area.<\/p>\n

“Crews were in attendance for roughly two hours.”<\/p>\n

GMP has appealed for any information about the fatal collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stewart Whittingham and Rumeana JahangirNorth West Phil Taylor Emergency services were called shortly after 00:45 GMT Three teenagers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-364677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}