National Highways has provided diversion routes for clockwise and anticlockwise traffic between Junctions 15 and 16 after confirming that the stretch will be "closed for some time" after a multi-vehicle crash.

Clockwise traffic is being diverted via the solid diamond diversion symbol on road signs:

- Exit the M60 clockwise at J15 and join the M61 northbound

- Exit the M61 at the A666 junction and join the A666 northbound

- At the Kearsley Interchange roundabout, take the third exit onto the A666 southbound (Bolton Road) and continue on this road to then re-join the M60 clockwise at J16

Anti-clockwise traffic is being diverted via the hollow square symbol on road signs:

- Exit the M60 anti-clockwise at J16 and turn right at the junction to join the A666 northbound

- Continue on the A666 Manchester Road/Bolton Road northbound until the Kearsley Interchange roundabout

- Turn left and continue on the A666(M) and then join the M61 southbound

- Continue south on the M61 and then merge onto the M60 anti-clockwise to continue onward journey