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Dad killed trying to cross unlit M66 at night... a coroner has criticised speed warning system after he was seen THREE times before tragedy

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Don't miss a thing that's happening in and around Bury by signing up to the free MyBury newsletter A coroner has criticised a motorway speed warning system after a confused dad was killed as he tried to run across the M66 ten minutes after he had first been reported on the hard shoulder.

Police sent Highways England three reports about a pedestrian on the motorway near Bury, the last from an off-duty sergeant who called for the speed signs to be reduced to 30mph after he had to swerve to avoid Lee Marsden, 35.

But the agency, which controls the electronic motorway signals, didn't realise the final alert had come from a police officer and so treated all three reports as 'unconfirmed'.

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