{"id":191139,"date":"2025-06-17T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191139\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:54:08","slug":"expect-delays-the-a5-is-closed-in-shropshire-in-both-directions-due-to-a-serious-road-traffic-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191139\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Expect delays\u2019: The A5 is closed in Shropshire in both directions due to a serious road traffic collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/transport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">road collision<\/a> on the A5 in Shropshire has led to the road being closed in both directions &#8211; southbound between B4009 (Gobowen) and B4059 (Five Crosses Roundabout).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmercia.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Mercia Police<\/a> remain on the scene this morning to undertake a collision investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhighways.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Highways<\/a> resources have been deployed to assist with traffic management.<\/p>\n<p>A5 diversion routes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is being diverted via local roads<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are being urged to allow extra time for journeys &#8211; including planning ahead and re-routing if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available from National Highways by visiting \u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficengland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.trafficengland.com<\/a>\u202fwebsite and travel apps, or via its regional X feed.<\/p>\n<p>The National Highways 24\/7 contact centre team is also available to provide up to the minute information on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story. We will bring you further updates as soon as we receive them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious road collision on the A5 in Shropshire has led to the road being closed in both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29795,379,12,29794,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-gobowen","10":"tag-local-hubs","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-oswestry","13":"tag-transport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114697631456261744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191139","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=191139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}