Heroic Pastor Sacrifices Life to Save Wife in Tragic Motorway Crash

On March 2025, a tragic incident occurred on the M60 motorway in Greater Manchester, resulting in the death of a beloved church pastor. David Lalgee, a 64-year-old grandfather-of-nine, was driving his electric BMW id5 with his wife Jo as a passenger when their vehicle was struck by a lorry that had veered across the motorway after experiencing a tyre blowout.

Witnesses at the scene described the sound of the collision as akin to a "bomb explosion". The lorry, driven by Tracy Carradice, had been travelling from Immingham to Morecambe when the incident occurred. Carradice, an experienced HGV driver, stated that she heard a "big bang" and the lorry "violently dropped" to the right, causing her to fight the steering wheel in a desperate attempt to regain control.

Tragically, despite the medics' best efforts, Mr. Lalgee sustained "catastrophic and unsurvivable" injuries and later died in the hospital. In a heartbreaking statement, his family revealed that he had swerved to protect his wife, placing himself between her and the oncoming lorry, and taking the full force of the impact to save the woman he loved.

The coroner's inquest concluded that the collision was "entirely unavoidable" due to the tyre blowout, and no criminal act or mechanical defect was found to be a contributing factor. The loss of Mr. Lalgee, a former police officer and qualified nurse who served as the pastor of Church Alive in Blackpool, has been described as a "huge loss to many people" by his devastated wife.