{"id":351994,"date":"2025-08-17T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351994\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:02:10","slug":"road-users-face-delays-of-more-than-an-hour-after-crash-on-m80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351994\/","title":{"rendered":"Road users face delays of more than an hour after crash on M80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The M80 has been closed following a collision on Sunday, causing delays of more than an hour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The northbound carriageway of the M80 is shut at junction 6 near Cumbernauld following reports of a crash at around 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Road users have been diverted off the motorway then back onto it at junction 6A.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are on the scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2757\ufe0fUPDATE\u23f2\ufe0f15:30<\/p>\n<p>\u26d4\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M80?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#M80<\/a> remains closed northbound at Junction 6 due to a collision.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udee3\ufe0fTraffic is being diverted off at Junction 6, then back on to the motorway at Junction 6A.<\/p>\n<p>\u231a\ufe0fWe currently have delays of 68 minutes on approach to Junction 6.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SETrunkRoads?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SETrunkRoads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Traffic Scotland (@trafficscotland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trafficscotland\/status\/1957089102202814863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A post from Traffic Scotland read: \u201c#M80 remains closed northbound at Junction 6 due to a collision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraffic is being diverted off at Junction 6, then back on to the motorway at Junction 6A.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe currently have delays of 68 minutes on approach to Junction 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police Scotland has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M80 has been closed following a collision on Sunday, causing delays of more than an hour. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351994","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\/115044951270400469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351994","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=351994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}