How awful :-(

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Family of 6 killed in a car crash on the M6 late last night here

gosh thats terrible. I have to do a massive jousney on the weekend with the dcs. Frightens me. Hope we get there safe.

I just saw this too, no words really.
cannot imagine how the rest of the family (grandparents etc) must be feeling
cars are deathtraps really, aren't they?

Its so sad, words can't express it really. A real tragedy

they have named the family. there was even 10 weeks baby! What a sad and tragic news for the relatives!!!!

Awful!!!

It is dreadful. I hate driving these days - people are in such a rush and have no respect for other drivers plus there are so many vehicles on the roads. It scares me every time I get on a motorway

I can't bear to think about this. It is so so sad. Those poor families - grandparents etc.

Absolutely awful

tragic, and a man was killed as well. he was mentioned as an after thought on the news.

So poor family

That was hideous, wasn't it? Poor remaining family. A number of years ago a family was killed near to my parents, a mum & dad, two dc and an uncle. For years, probably about 15yrs now, they've put flowers at the crash site, summer and winter. How can you ever get over something like this?

I mean remaining family put flowers at the site.

2shoes - actually the man wasn't mentioned as an "after thought" - it was a different accident he was killed in - the man in question has been mentioned in other news reports - most of it I've heard has been in the sport section as he was a former Rugby League player.

Awful though that 7 people were killed in such a short space on time on the same road.

oh sorry I thought he was killed in the same accident.

"Police said the crash appeared to have happened in heavy, slow traffic caused by an accident less than two hours earlier on the same stretch of motorway.

Mr Myers, a former Widnes and Great Britain Rugby League player, was killed in the earlier accident, which took place at 2100 BST, between Junction 17 at Sandbach and Junction 18 for Holmes Chapel.

It is his thought his van hit a bridge support"

my mistake it was an erlier accindent that day

There were actually 5 sperate crashes between junctions 14 and 18 that night
I don't know what it is about that stretch of the M6 but the amount of accidents there is unbelievable. I think the accident that killed those poor boys earlier this year(the one involving the footballer) was on that stretch of the M6 too.

It's very sad the poor family.
I have a phobia of motorways for this very reason especially when lorries are around. When I was 9 a friend and her whole family (3 kids 2 parents) died when a lorry went out of control and knocked their car off the reservation. It haunts me to this day.

Was very updet to hear was a foreign, so presume lhd vehicle. Several year ago on the M25, goin ghome form work, my car was hit be a lhd vehicle (Spanish) pulling out into blind spot, knocked my car so went round and round, across three carriage wasy,hit another car and came to a standstill side on to oncoming vehicles...
LUCKILY it was a sunny afternnon, not ruch hour, other cars could stop and i walked away. But the plive told me there is one aday on the M25 alone like that, and if it had been ruch hour, if the cars behinfd me had been going faster, or inattentive ( mobile phone etc) I would have been a goner.
I can still remeber timestanding still asthe car spun round.
it REALLY hit me a month later at the Xmas carol service, when the children were singing'away in a manger' and I burst inot dloods of tear, ebcasue my children (then aged 5 & 3) might have been there without their mum.
I avoid that stretch of motoray no, and on all motorways keep well away from foreign lorries.

I got really upset about this, its such a sad story I think that the local radio station where I am went into too much deatil re how many lorries ht the car / how crushed it was / bursting into flames etc. You gather is horrific when something happens like this, without all the detail.

I watched traffic cops the other week and the police were saying how dangerous the lorries are as there is a lack of understanding about how much force is generated if they hit something.

So, so sad or any remaining family; how do you ever get over the loss of an entire family

There seems to be a lot of accidents on that Sandbach part of the motorway. It really needs investigating as to why these accidents are happening.

The whole thing is so awful I can't bear to dwell on it at all. I live in Widnes and I come from a family of Rugby fans who are also very upset at the death of David Myers as well.

this story has been replayed so much yesterday and today on our local (granada) news. there are a lot of accidents on that stretch but it could be that i am localish so its on my local news a lot..?

It's a horrific story and so dreadful to imagine when you have children. There's absolutely nothing they could have done and I hate to think of those final seconds.

I still don't understand how a car can just explode.I heard a few years ago about a woman on the M4 who was stationary behind a lorry and was hit from behind by another lorry and her car was squashed beyond recognition.

Poor poor family -it's just not fair.

Yes I agree it might be because we are local but I do notice that the Sandbach stretch gets mentioned a lot in relation to accidents. I used to work with a guy who lived round there and he was always struggling to get in when there had been an accident, which seemed worryingly regular!

The weather was quite bad on Monday if memory serves so that would have also been a big factor I suppose.

It was awful driving to school with the kids on Monday and thinking about that poor family (they only thought there were 5 in the car at that point.)

The only thing I am thankful for is that it was instant, they would not have known a thing hopefully.

Sorry, I meant Tuesday.

Goodness that is awful

My heart goes out to all the remaining family and friends my thoughts are with all of them and the poor people who died that day too including the rugby player.

So tragic that a road can cause so much devastation