{"id":629166,"date":"2026-06-09T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:24:12","slug":"east-lancs-road-closed-for-hours-after-police-incident-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629166\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lancs Road closed for hours after &#8216;police incident&#8217; &#8211; recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sadly, a man has died after a &#8220;serious&#8221; crash on East Lancs Road last night, Monday, June 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Merseyside Police confirmed this morning a section of East Lancs Road in Haydock was shut for hours following a crash at around 11pm on Monday. A motorcycle crashed with a lorry on the westbound carriageway between Penny Lane and Kenyons Lane South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The motorbike rider, a man in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have now been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police believe two lorries have been involved in the incident. The force understands one lorry crashed head on with the motorcyclist, while a second lorry may have been &#8220;indirectly involved&#8221; in the circumstances leading up to the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Read the full story here: <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/man-killed-crash-east-lancs-34088282?int_source=breaking-news\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Man killed in crash on East Lancs Road<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadly, a man has died after a &#8220;serious&#8221; crash on East Lancs Road last night, Monday, June 8.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32965,32967,49,2512,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-629166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-east-lancs-road","tag-haydock","tag-headlines","tag-merseyside-police","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\/629166","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=629166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}