{"id":363837,"date":"2025-08-22T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363837\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:24:10","slug":"m25-traffic-live-motorway-held-in-both-directions-after-people-in-road-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363837\/","title":{"rendered":"M25 traffic LIVE: Motorway held in both directions after &#8216;people in road&#8217; | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queues of traffic are building on the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/m25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M25<\/a> in both directions due to a police-led incident, which has caused all vehicles to be held. This is affecting motorists travelling along the motorway in Surrey, near Junction 6.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports shortly before 5am indicated that this was due to &#8220;people in the road&#8221; and that the stoppage was likely to be temporary.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic cameras on the route show long lines of lorries and morning commuters stuck in snaking tailbacks while <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a> respond to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic sensor Inrix read at 4.47am: &#8221; All traffic being temporarily held and stationary traffic due to people on the road on M25 in both directions between J6 A22 (Godstone) and Clacket Lane Services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a breaking incident, follow below for live updates<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queues of traffic are building on the M25 in both directions due to a police-led incident, which has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8087,12,127553,529,127552,127551,8089,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-m25","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-people-in-road","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-police-led","14":"tag-traffic-incident","15":"tag-traffic-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115070754490559362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363837","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=363837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}