{"id":351830,"date":"2025-08-17T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351830\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:33:13","slug":"stretch-of-busy-motorway-near-glasgow-closed-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351830\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretch of busy motorway near Glasgow closed after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Traffic Scotland announced that the northbound carriageway of the M80 is currently shut at junction six\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/cumbernauld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cumbernauld<\/a>, Castlecary) after the crash took place at around 2pm today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Drivers are being urged to avoid the area, as motorists are being diverted off of the motorway at present.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emergency services are in attendance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Traffic Scotland spokesperson said: &#8220;The M80 northbound is closed at junction six due to a collision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Motorists are advised to avoid the area. Drivers are being diverted off the motorway at junction six.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Emergency services are at the scene. More updates to follow.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>\n    \u2757\ufe0fNEW\u23f2\ufe0f14:00<\/p>\n<p>\u26d4\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M80?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#M80<\/a> northbound CLOSED at Junction 6 due to a collision.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udee3\ufe0fMotorists are advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcacMore updates to follow.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SETrunkRoads?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SETrunkRoads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pYTATrsFgo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pYTATrsFgo<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Traffic Scotland (@trafficscotland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trafficscotland\/status\/1957066502412054946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 17, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/police-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> has been contacted for comment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For the latest updates, visit Traffic Scotland&#8217;s social media pages.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic Scotland announced that the northbound carriageway of the M80 is currently shut at junction six\u00a0(Cumbernauld, Castlecary) after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351830","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-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115044601240763461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351830","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=351830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}