{"id":316785,"date":"2025-08-04T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316785\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:27:10","slug":"m5-crash-long-delays-between-worcester-and-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316785\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 crash: long delays between Worcester and Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Two lanes of the M5 were shut between junction 4a (M42) and junction 5 (Droitwich) of the M5 at 8.30am this morning following a crash involving a lorry and two cars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The incident was quickly cleared, but traffic had already built up for several miles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for National Highways said: &#8220;All lanes have now reopened on the M5 southbound.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;An hour and a half delay with seven miles of congestion remains in the area, but should now start to ease.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two lanes of the M5 were shut between junction 4a (M42) and junction 5 (Droitwich) of the M5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-316785","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316785","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=316785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}