{"id":385689,"date":"2025-08-30T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385689\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:01:10","slug":"m5-traffic-three-hour-delays-after-multi-vehicle-crash-near-bristol-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385689\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 traffic: Three-hour delays after multi-vehicle crash near Bristol | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delays on the M5 northbound are now easing following a multi-vehicle crash earlier this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>National Highways confirmed that all lanes remain open between J22 Burnham-on-Sea and J21 Weston-super-Mare, with traffic flows now \u201cimproving\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They said: \u201cThere\u2019s now delays of approximately one hour above normal journey times and seven miles of congestion on the approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes after drivers were warned of up to three-hour delays and 13 miles of tailbacks shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are still being advised to allow extra time for their journeys, but congestion is gradually starting to clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delays on the M5 northbound are now easing following a multi-vehicle crash earlier this afternoon. National Highways confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,133783,118255,118256,133784,133785,118254,8088,8089,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-385689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-m5-bristol","13":"tag-m5-crash","14":"tag-m5-delays","15":"tag-m5-latest","16":"tag-m5-news","17":"tag-m5-traffic","18":"tag-motorway","19":"tag-traffic-news","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115119501025132086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385689","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=385689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}