A MAN who died following a road traffic collision on the M6 at Kendal on Monday, January 9, has been identified.

The collision involved a red Renault Megane and a blue Scania Artic, both travelling northbound near Junction 37 at the time.

The driver of the Renault Megane was pronounced dead at the scene.

He has now been named as Ben Oakley, aged 34, from Shropshire.

The driver of the second vehicle - a man in his 40s also from outside Cumbria - was uninjured.