{"id":110231,"date":"2025-05-17T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110231\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T23:22:15","slug":"lanes-closed-on-m5-after-concerns-for-safety-of-woman-near-a-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110231\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanes closed on M5 after concerns for safety of woman near a bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All lanes were closed on the M5 southbound between Junction 2 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oldbury<\/a> and Junction 3 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quinton<\/a> and traffic was been brought to a complete stop on Saturday afternoon at around 1pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/10cb991e-00b6-48e6-b0df-e6245c59c1cd.jpg\"   alt=\"Cars are starting to build up down towards Junction 1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Cars are starting to build up down towards Junction 1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhighways.co.uk\/our-roads\/west-midlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Highways West Midlands<\/a> made the announcement on social media saying the disruption was caused by a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0police-led<\/a> incident.<\/p>\n<p>They also warned of very long delays on approach and for drivers to consider alternative routes if they had not yet set off on their journey.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police has since released a statement, saying they were concerned for the safety of a woman near a bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It read: &#8220;We were called to the M5 near junction 2, following concerns for the safety of a woman near a bridge at around 12.38pm today (Sat).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The motorway was closed for a short time. The woman was taken to hospital to be checked over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incident has since cleared.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All lanes were closed on the M5 southbound between Junction 2 for Oldbury and Junction 3 for Quinton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,12608,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-110231","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-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sandwell","15":"tag-transport","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114525749200779723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110231","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=110231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}