{"id":168050,"date":"2025-06-08T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168050\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:45:10","slug":"m65-traffic-major-motorway-closed-after-crash-as-drivers-face-delays-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168050\/","title":{"rendered":"M65 traffic: Major motorway closed after crash as drivers face delays | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M65 drivers are facing delays after an accident closed all lanes in one direction between two junctions on the motorway. Travel alert site Inrix wrote: &#8220;M65 Westbound closed, queueing traffic due to accident from J4 A666 Earcroft Way (Darwen\/Blackburn South) to J3 A674 Chorley Road (Blackburn West\/Wheelton).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lane three of three has been closed on the Eastbound carriageway as a result of the incident on accident on the Westbound carriageway.&#8221; Inrix further added: &#8220;Delays of nine minutes on M65 Westbound between J4 A666 Earcroft Way (Darwen \/ Blackburn South) and J3 A674 Chorley Road (Blackburn West \/ Wheelton). Average speed 10 mph.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS LIVE BLOG IS NOW CLOSED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"M65 drivers are facing delays after an accident closed all lanes in one direction between two junctions on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[70233,70236,70234,70235,70237,8088,12,8089,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-168050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-m65","10":"tag-m65-latest","11":"tag-m65-live","12":"tag-m65-traffic","13":"tag-m65-updates","14":"tag-motorway","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-traffic-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114648758591032303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168050","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=168050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}