{"id":368349,"date":"2025-08-23T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368349\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:10:14","slug":"road-closed-following-crash-between-two-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368349\/","title":{"rendered":"Road closed following crash between two buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be working with the operator to establish the cause of the incident and take any further steps as appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>16:11, 23 Aug 2025Updated 16:15, 23 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Two-buses-collide-at-junction-of-Rochdale-Road-and-St-Marys-Way-in-Oldham.jpg\" alt=\"The road was closed for around an hour\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The road was closed for around an hour<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A road was closed after two buses collided this afternoon. A diversion was put in place after the buses crashed into each other at the junction of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/rochdale\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Rochdale<\/a> Road and St Mary&#8217;s Way in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/oldham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Oldham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The incident occurred at around 12.20pm. The Bee Network is looking into the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Never miss a story with the MEN&#8217;s daily Catch Up newsletter &#8211; get it in your inbox by signing up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b8052254-66af-41f3-9dae-7bbb0e3391c6&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A TfGM spokesperson said: &#8220;We&#8217;re aware of a collision between two Bee Network buses, which happened shortly after 12.20 today at the junction of Rochdale Road and St Mary&#8217;s Way, in Oldham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The road was partially blocked, and a short diversion was put in place, which was cleared within an hour. We&#8217;ll be working with the operator to establish the cause of the incident and take any further steps as appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ll be working with the operator to establish the cause of the incident and take any further steps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[15333,748,393,4884,2465,1286,1170,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bee-network","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-oldham","14":"tag-rochdale","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080608196084973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368349","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=368349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}