{"id":20456,"date":"2025-04-14T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20456\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:25:10","slug":"crash-near-birmingham-freight-terminal-sparks-long-queues-as-emergency-services-issue-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20456\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash near Birmingham freight terminal sparks long queues as emergency services issue statements\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full statements from emergency services after a crash caused disruption near city freight terminal<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_JS365911322.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Lorries queuing up at Landor Street in Birmingham on Monday April 14 (Image: Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A crash near Birmingham&#8217;s freight terminal caused long queues of lorries out of the city this morning, Monday April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The collision involved an HGV and a car and happened in Landor Street during rush hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> and West Midlands Fire Service attended the scene, close to the Lawley Middleway junction, just after 7am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/firefighters-tackle-smouldering-50-tonne-31418312\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Firefighters tackle smouldering 50 tonne rubbish pile in Digbeth after &#8216;huge&#8217; fire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HiSLU1pMS4WIRGDRbnDYAf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Firefighters were called to the scene after the car became wedged against the HGV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">There were no injuries in the crash, confirmed West Midlands Fire Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But there were knock-on queues and residual delays in and around the freight terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Long lines of HGVs were pictured back up towards the A38 Dartmouth Circus roundabout.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_JS365911327-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Lorries queuing up at Landor Street in Birmingham on Monday April 14<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">West Midlands Police said the road was cleared by 8.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson said: &#8220;We were called just after 7am to reports of a collision involving a car and a lorry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;No one was injured and the road was subsequently cleared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A West Midlands Fire Service spokesperson said: &#8220;We were alerted to a road traffic collision involving a car and a lorry on Lawley Middleway, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> at 7.20am on Monday, April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;No-one was trapped or injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The car had become wedged against the HGV, and a crew from War End fire station used a winch to release it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full statements from emergency services after a crash caused disruption near city freight terminalLorries queuing up at Landor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,13284,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-20456","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-midlands-fire-service","15":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456","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=20456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}