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It's an image as shocking as the tragic story behind it.

The mangled wreck of an Audi A5 has gone on display at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city - a powerful symbol of how life can change in an instant.

It also serves to poignantly hammer home the terrible consequences of dangerous driving and speeding.

Known to friends as a gentle giant, it's the car Joseph Brown-Lartey was driving when it was hit at a busy crossroads by a driver who ran a red light at 80mph in a 30mph zone.

The force of the collision in Rochdale in 2014 was such that Joseph's car was split in two.

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Police officers who attended the scene on Bury Road in the town said it was the worst smash they had ever seen on an urban street.

Joseph, who was

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