Two of M6 crash victims named locally

Police are continuing to investigate what happened

Author: Matt MaddrenPublished 18th Oct 2024

A mother from Glasgow was among five people killed in a crash involving two cars on the M6 in Cumbria, it has been reported.

Jade McEnroe, 33, is understood to have been travelling in a Toyota which crashed head-on with another vehicle on the northbound carriageway of the motorway near Tebay services on Tuesday afternoon.

A 42-year-old-man, named in reports as Jaroslaw Rossa, was also killed in the crash alongside two boys aged 15 and seven who had been travelling in the same vehicle.

A second man, aged 40, from Cambridgeshire, who police said had been reported driving a Skoda the wrong way down the northbound carriageway, was also declared dead at the crash site.

A third boy travelling in the Toyota, aged seven, was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle with serious injuries.

All those involved have yet to be identified by police.

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