A man has tragically died after suffering a medical episode at the wheel before crashing into a central reservation barrier.
The driver had been travelling on the M61 on Tuesday (15 November) approaching junction four for Atherton when the smash happened, police said.
He's understood to have fallen ill before his vehicle collided with the central reservation of the busy motorway. Despite the best efforts of paramedics, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
