{"id":462711,"date":"2026-03-07T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:35:07","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-multiple-vehicle-crash-on-m6-warrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462711\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after multiple vehicle crash on M6 Warrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A person has died after being hit by several vehicles on the M6 motorway, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pedestrian was found dead following the incident between junctions 21 and 21A on the M6 in Warrington, a Cheshire Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers were called to reports of the collision on the northbound carriageway of the motorway at around 02:50 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This section of the M6 northbound remains closed, along with a section near Leyland, Lancashire. Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died after being hit by several vehicles on the M6 motorway, police said. The pedestrian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462711","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=462711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}