{"id":491890,"date":"2026-03-24T03:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:18:14","slug":"m61-man-from-nelson-dies-after-motorway-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491890\/","title":{"rendered":"M61: Man from Nelson dies after motorway crash police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/topics\/lancashire-police\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lancashire Constabulary<\/a> believe that the collision happened at about 10 pm on Saturday, March 22, after an Audi A3 driving northbound lost control close to junction nine and collided with trees down a steep embankment before coming to rest out of view of the carriageway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The driver and sole occupant, a man in his 30s from Nelson, suffered serious injuries and died at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/topics\/emergency\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emergency<\/a> services were contacted this morning after the vehicle was discovered in the early hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The motorway was closed for a number of hours before reopening this afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/25958421.live-m61-closed-junction-9-m65-m6-jct-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"WlydOe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">M61 partially shut after crash in early hours &#8211; live updates<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/25958566.m61-northbound-closed-following-serious-early-hours-collision\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"WlydOe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emergency services on scene of serious crash after vehicle careers off motorway lane<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sgt Bex Price, of the Road Policing Unit, said: \u201cThis collision has very sadly resulted in a man losing his life and I would appeal to anyone who has any information or footage which may have captured this vehicle prior to the collision to get in touch.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you can help, call 101 quoting log 0074 of March 23rd.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You can also email the Serious Collision Investigation Unit at <a target=\"_blank\">SCIU@lancashire.police.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancashire Constabulary believe that the collision happened at about 10 pm on Saturday, March 22, after an Audi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-491890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491890","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=491890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}