{"id":338195,"date":"2025-08-12T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338195\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:27:11","slug":"east-lancs-road-traffic-huge-car-fire-shuts-road-as-smoke-seen-for-miles-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338195\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lancs Road traffic: Huge car fire shuts road as smoke seen for miles | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of East Lancs Road near St Helens in Merseyside was closed after a car fire. Dramtic pictures show flames and smoke billowing from the scene this morning (Tuesday, August 12).<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services rushed to the scene at around 6.50am and the eastbound carriageway was shut. Drivers were urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong> THIS LIVE BLOG IS NOW CLOSED &#8211; READ COVERAGE BELOW\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of East Lancs Road near St Helens in Merseyside was closed after a car fire. Dramtic pictures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[19599,78074,120759,18850,12,2645,8089,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-cars-section","10":"tag-east-lancs-road","11":"tag-east-lancs-road-fire","12":"tag-haydock","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-st-helens","15":"tag-traffic-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115015322435442333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338195","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=338195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}