{"id":1177257,"date":"2026-08-30T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177257\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:14:23","slug":"man-dies-after-bridge-fall-which-closes-m8-motorway-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177257\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after bridge fall which closes M8 motorway in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man has died after falling off a bridge in Glasgow which has led to the closure of part of the M8 motorway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The incident happened just before 3am on Sunday at junction 11 near the Cranhill area of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Diversions are in place with eastbound traffic heading off at junction 11 taking the Gartloch Road and Auchinlea Road to rejoin at junction 10.<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 2.55am on Sunday, 30 August, 2026, officers attended the M8 at Cranhill, Glasgow, following a report of a man fallen from a bridge onto the eastbound carriageway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 29-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe M8 eastbound remains closed while enquiries are carried out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after falling off a bridge in Glasgow which has led to the closure of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1177258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1177257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-britain","tag-glasgow","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117184645739166791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177257","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=1177257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}