{"id":109045,"date":"2025-05-17T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/109045\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:50:13","slug":"major-birmingham-disruption-as-emergency-services-deal-with-incident-on-stratford-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/109045\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Birmingham disruption as emergency services deal with incident on Stratford Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers are being warned of major traffic disruption as the emergency services deal with an incident on Stratford Road.<\/p>\n<p>Police are dealing with a reported collision involving a supermarket lorry outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sainsburys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sainsbury&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sainsbury&#8217;s<\/a> in Shirley.<\/p>\n<p>The A34 Stratford Road blocked Northbound and there is slow traffic from B4102 Blackford Road to Shakespeare Drive.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/carmen-missing-sutton-coldfield-breaking-31665001?int_source=nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Urgent appeal to find missing Sutton Coldfield woman with public urged \u2018call 999\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Urgent appeal to find missing Sutton Coldfield woman with public urged \u2018call 999\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/two-arrested-suspicion-child-neglect-31664790?int_source=nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Two arrested on suspicion of child neglect and animal cruelty after dead dog found in Tamworth house;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Two arrested on suspicion of child neglect and animal cruelty after dead dog found in Tamworth house<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/cctv-appeal-following-car-key-31664615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read More: CCTV appeal following car key burglary and break-in probe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Read More: CCTV appeal following car key burglary and break-in probe<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>National Express West Midlands bus routes 5, 6 and 76 have been placed on diversion.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Roads said: &#8220;A34 Stratford Road Northbound. Road traffic collision near Sainsburys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Road blocked &#8211; Traffic congestion in opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b>Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/b> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plan Ahead: Allow extra time for your journey and consider alternative routes where possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>National Express West Midlands said: &#8220;Service Disruption Due to an Emergency service lead incident at Stratford Road #Shirley Services diverting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/solihull\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Solihull;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Solihull<\/a> ONLY: 5: Marshall Lake Road and Union Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;6 and 76: Solihull Road and Danford Lane We apologise for any disruption to your journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:West Midlands Police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">West Midlands Police<\/a> are looking into the incident and will be issuing a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers are being warned of major traffic disruption as the emergency services deal with an incident on Stratford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,133,393,4884,15265,37064,49675,44655,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-109045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-emergency-services","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-national-express-west-midlands","14":"tag-road-traffic-collision","15":"tag-stratford-road","16":"tag-traffic-disruption","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114523263676921705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109045","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=109045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}