{"id":172470,"date":"2025-06-10T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172470\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:23:11","slug":"minor-disruption-reported-following-crash-near-smethwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172470\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Minor disruption&#8217; reported following crash near Smethwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roads watchdog, West Midlands Roads, has reported minor disruptions to regular travel on West Heath Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/smethwick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smethwick<\/a>, following a crash on the route.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident was first reported at around 8.45am on Tuesday, with the road being blocked in both directions at the junction of Fairfax Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/228e9f70-f990-49ba-9b5d-8fb20e183908.PNG\"   alt=\"West Heath Road, near to where the incident took place\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>West Heath Road, near to where the incident took place<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Minor disruption&#8217; is being reported in the area, with the roads group warning to &#8216;consider other routes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Roads said on X: &#8220;West Heath Road. Road traffic collision on this route at the junction of Fairfax Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Road is currently blocked in both directions. Allow extra time to travel and consider other routes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is unknow yet as to the nature of the incident, however, emergency services have been approached for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roads watchdog, West Midlands Roads, has reported minor disruptions to regular travel on West Heath Road, Birmingham, near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,12608,17756,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-172470","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-smethwick","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172470","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=172470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}