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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Neal Keeling

Heartbreaking tributes paid to teenager, 17, "who made everyone laugh" killed in motorbike crash

Tributes have been paid to a "kind hearted" teenager who was killed in a road crash in Cheshire. Ben Smith, aged 17, from Irlam, died after a motorbike he and another teenager were on collided with a moped.

The location of the accident is a long country road, Holcroft Lane, Culcheth, which goes over the M62. The incident happened at about 9.30pm on Monday July 18th and Ben died at the scene. A 13-year-old boy who was also on the motorbike suffered serious injuries.

In a joint tribute, his family said: “08/03/2005 - 18/07/2022 - Ben Smith The kind hearted boy who made everyone laugh. He was deeply loved and will be missed by so many people.

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