Ethel Irene Ditcher, known as Irene to friends and family, was hit by an HGV on Leigh Road at 11:45am and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities were called to Leigh Road around 11.45 am yesterday, following reports that a woman had been hit by a lorry.

A serious crash between a pedestrian and a truck has taken place on Portland Street in the middle of Manchester’s city centre rush hour.

A collision between a car and a minivan has left a car badly damaged and a minivan overturned on one of the busiest entrances into the city centre.

A teenager is fighting for his life after falling 12ft inside the Ritz in Manchester on Sunday night. He fell from the balcony onto a concrete floor at the Whitworth Street West venue in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Two Manchester drivers who smashed into a car, killing a young couple, whilst racing their Audis in a deadly game of ‘cat and mouse’ have been jailed for nine years.

Jennifer Cross, 36, from Salford, was hit by a car near to Bank Lane, Irlam o’ th’ Heights at around 5.35pm and shortly died after being taken to hospital.

MM took to the streets to find out whether Manchester think new measures should be brought in to ensure better protection for sport stars, to ensure their safety, after the tragic death of star batsman Phillip Hughes

A bubbly young actress, tipped for stardom after studying at The Manchester School of Acting, dies in a road smash while trying to overtake another car at an Alderley Edge accident blackspot

The girl had been playing outside at about 3.50pm on November 15 when she walked into the road and was hit by a car similar to a Toyota Avensis.

Piccadilly Gardens has the highest number of reported ‘fatal’ and ‘serious’ collisions in the city, figures reveal.