{"id":401070,"date":"2026-01-11T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:11","slug":"four-killed-and-five-injured-in-bolton-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401070\/","title":{"rendered":"Four killed and five injured in Bolton road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stewart WhittinghamNorth West<\/p>\n

\"PAPA<\/p>\n

Police were called to reports of a collision in the early hours of Sunday morning<\/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 believed 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 – had died. The driver of the Citroen C4 Picasso, believed to be a taxi, was also killed. <\/p>\n

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

The crash scene has been sealed off.<\/p>\n

GMP has appealed for any information about the fatal collision.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stewart WhittinghamNorth West PA Police were called to reports of a collision in the early hours of Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-401070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}