Accident

[shillelagh]

outside the alma ... theyve shut the road outside the alma .. bus has turned round in southwood drive. sending cars the back way round southwood drive etc.

 

[AccyMad]

It's on teletext this morning that an elderly man was knocked down and kiled by a van there last night & that the driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

 

[Lolly]

I cant find any other details about it, just here:

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Pedestrian hit and killed by van

and that says basically what Accymad said. Its a bad place to cross in general is Manchester Road, but I think that where this crash happened there is a traffic island just a few hundered yards further up.

 

[katex]

Aaah, how very sad .. will probably be somebody's dad and possibly grandad.