{"id":294520,"date":"2025-07-26T23:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294520\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:52:14","slug":"major-glasgow-road-shut-in-both-directions-amid-ongoing-police-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294520\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Glasgow road shut in both directions amid &#8216;ongoing&#8217; police incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLASGOW&#8217;S Clyde Tunnel has been closed in both directions amid an ongoing police incident.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews rushed to the busy A739 this afternoon after the alarm was raised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emergency vehicles at the scene of an incident in a tunnel.\" height=\"444\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Acumfaegovan\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clyde-tunnel-incident-taken-acumfaegovan-1012514188.jpg\" data-caption=\"The Clyde Tunnel has been closed in both directions due to a police incident.\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/clyde-tunnel-incident-taken-acumfaegovan-1012514188.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>The Clyde Tunnel has been closed in both directions due to a police incident.Credit: Acumfaegovan<\/p>\n<p>Police, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/scottish-ambulance-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paramedics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/scottish-fire-and-rescue-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire<\/a> crews have been spotted at the southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/where\/glasgow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Govan<\/a> entrance to the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic has built up on the eastbound section of the M8, Govan Road, Paisley Road West and Shieldhall Road.<\/p>\n<p>The M8 eastbound exit slip road at junction 25 has also been shut to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cThe Clyde Tunnel is closed northbound due to an ongoing incident that was reported around 2.45pm on Saturday, 26 July, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe southbound carriageway has now re-opened however the area is very congested and motorists should avoid the area is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLASGOW&#8217;S Clyde Tunnel has been closed in both directions amid an ongoing police incident. Emergency crews rushed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,529,530,712,5119,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-294520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114922228541274487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294520","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=294520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}