Driver dies after heart attack on M62

Date published: 10 March 2014


A man died last Thursday night (6 March) after suffering a suspected heart attack while driving on the M62.

His Vauxhall Insignia veered towards the central reservation, but the driver managed to bring the car to a halt on the hard shoulder.

Police, ambulance and fire services from Heywood and Ashton were called to the exit slip road at junction 20 westbound — Rochdale and Oldham — at around 11.30pm.

Firefighters used a defibrillitator before the man was taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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