{"id":245033,"date":"2025-07-07T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245033\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:35:09","slug":"m25-dartford-traffic-live-severe-delays-as-crash-sparks-chaos-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245033\/","title":{"rendered":"M25 Dartford traffic LIVE: Severe delays as crash sparks chaos | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic on the M25 is now flowing smoothly, with motorway cameras confirming free movement. However, the traffic map indicates congestion just after crossing the river near Dartford, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kentlive.news\/news\/kent-news\/m25-dartford-crossing-live-traffic-10323829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KentLive<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re heading along the A2 towards the M25, expect heavy delays and stop-and-go traffic due to one lane being closed because of a broken-down lorry. This blockage is located near the B255\/Bluewater (Bean Interchange).<\/p>\n<p>The resulting congestion stretches back past Tollgate Services to Gravesend East, with travel times being around 25 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic on the M25 is now flowing smoothly, with motorway cameras confirming free movement. However, the traffic map&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[95205,95206,8087,95204,79899,79898,12,8089,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-dartford-crossing","10":"tag-dartford-traffic","11":"tag-m25","12":"tag-m25-dartford","13":"tag-m25-news","14":"tag-m25-traffic","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-traffic-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114811510847886662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245033","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=245033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}