{"id":88208,"date":"2025-05-09T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88208\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:00:15","slug":"he-was-taken-away-from-us-too-soon-tributes-for-loving-dad-who-died-following-collision-in-greater-manchester-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88208\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe was taken away from us too soon.” Tributes for loving dad who died following collision in Greater Manchester town"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Kennedy, 47, was seriously injured when a car collided with him\"JamesJames Kennedy <\/p>\n

Tributes have been paid to a beloved father who died days after being hit by a car in Leigh. James Kennedy, 47, was seriously injured when a car collided with him at around 8am on Thursday May 1 on Henry Street.<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital but died on May 3. His family are being supported by specialist officers at this time.<\/p>\n

The driver, a woman in her 50s, stopped at the scene and was arrested at the time on suspicion of causing injury by careless driving. She has since been bailed pending further enquiries.<\/p>\n

In a tribute issued via Greater Manchester Police<\/a>, Mr Kennedy’s family said: \u201cHe was taken away from us too soon. James will be forever missed, but never forgotten.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a loving son, brother, father and uncle. Forever in our hearts. Lots of love from all your family and friends. RIP James, till we meet again xx.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officers are continuing to ask for information as they carry out their enquiries into the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 0161 856 4741 quoting log number 676 of 01\/05\/25.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alternatively, details can be shared on our Live Chat function on our website, www.gmp.police.uk<\/a> or via the independent charity, Crimestoppers, anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Kennedy, 47, was seriously injured when a car collided with himJames Kennedy Tributes have been paid to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,187,3043,2465,16,15,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-88208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greater-manchester-police","12":"tag-leigh","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114479656044510844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}