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TRAVEL: Carlisle - A6

Motorists are warned of major disruption on the outskirts of Carlisle following a serious road traffic collision on the A6.

Police and ambulance service are at the scene close to Junction 42 of the M6 motorway following a collision between a pedestrian and a heavy goods vehicle.

Officers say the road into Carlisle will be closed for some time. Local diversions in place. Heavy traffic should use Eastern Way to access the M6 at junction 43.

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Man dies in Whitehaven crash

A man has died in a road crash in Whitehaven.

The collision, involving one car, happened at around 2.30pm close to the Howgate Hotel.

Cumbria Police say the man, who is believed to be local and in his seventies, collided with a wall and was pronounced dead at West Cumberland Hospital.

Police are appealing for witnesses to contact PC Mark Ormerod in Cumbria Constabulary’s Roads Policing Unit on 101.

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