{"id":687571,"date":"2026-07-12T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:49:08","slug":"woman-dies-after-driving-wrong-way-on-the-m62-in-rochdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687571\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after driving wrong way on the M62 in Rochdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman has died after crashing into another car when she drove in the wrong direction down a carriageway on the M62 motorway, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her grey Nissan Juke crashed into a grey BMW X5 at 23:00 BST on Saturday night between junctions 21 and 22 in Rochdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the Nissan driver, in her 50s, died at the scene, while  the driver and passengers of the BMW were treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said the crash has caused delays of 30 minutes with queues back to junction 24. GMP have appealed for any dashcam or CCTV footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died after crashing into another car when she drove in the wrong direction down a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687571","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\/687571","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=687571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}