Police are appealing for witnesses after a man sadly died following a road traffic accident in Bamber Bridge.
The incident happened at shortly before 7pm last night (Wednesday 2 December) when a man was jogging on the grass verge on Wigan Lane, near to the junction of Shady Lane. He is then believed to have fallen into the carriageway where he was involved in a collision with an oncoming lorry.
The man, 31, suffered head injuries and was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
PS John Jennings-Wharton from the Road Policing Unit said: “This is a tragic incident where a man has sadly lost his life. We are trying to establish exactly how this collision occurred and I would appeal to anyone who may have seen a jogger in the area around the time of the accident to contact us.”
Anyone with information can contact police on 101 quoting log 1177 of 2nd December.
Submit News Contact us with your community, business or sport news. Phone 07581350321
Email ots@otsnews.co.uk
Facebook www.facebook.com/otsnews.co.uk
Twitter www.twitter.com/onthespot_news
Breaking local news as it happens, searchable archives with photographs, the ability to instantly comment on news articles – there are so many advantages to OTS (Onthespot) News.
If you want your news read locally online then send it to ots@otsnews.co.uk – relying only on the newspaper is to restrict yourself to an ever reducing audience.