{"id":39368,"date":"2025-04-21T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/39368\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:45:10","slug":"m6-closed-to-traffic-near-birmingham-due-to-vehicle-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/39368\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 closed to traffic near Birmingham due to vehicle fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The M6 motorway is closed in the West Midlands due to a car fire tonight (Monday, April 21). The northbound carriageway is shut to traffic between Junction 4 and Junction 4A.<\/p>\n<p>The closure was first reported at around 9.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A National Highways spokesperson said: &#8220;The M6 in the West Midlands is currently closed northbound between J4 to J4A near Coleshill and Birmingham Airport due to a car fire.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/exact-time-lyrid-meteor-shower-31479339?int_source=nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Exact time Lyrid meteor shower is set to dazzle UK skies tonight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Exact time Lyrid meteor shower is set to dazzle UK skies tonight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/supermarket-cheese-costs-380-named-31476644?int_source=nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Supermarket cheese that costs \u00a33.80 named best in UK - beating iconic Cathedral City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Supermarket cheese that costs \u00a33.80 named best in UK &#8211; beating iconic Cathedral City<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The link road between M42 J7 northbound and M6 J4 northbound is also closed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency services including West Midlands Traffic Police are in attendance. National Highways has resources deployed to assist with traffic management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Road users are advised to expect disruption and to allow extra journey time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diversion route:<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are being advised to follow hollow Circle Diversion symbol on road signs. Exit at J4 and bear left on the slip road to access the Coleshill Interchange.<\/p>\n<p>At the roundabout take the third exit on to the A446. Follow the A446 north to Coleshill and at the roundabout with the B4114 take the first exit on Birmingham Road.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this road to the roundabout with the A452. Take the third exit on to the A452 and follow this road to Castle Bromwich.<\/p>\n<p>At the roundabout take the second exit to remain on the A452 and cross below the M6 J5. Continue to Spitfire Island and take the first exit on to the A47.<\/p>\n<p>Remain on the A47 Fort Parkway\/Heartlands Parkway) to Star City and the roundabout with the B4137 Cuckoo Road.<\/p>\n<p>Take the third exit from the roundabout and follow the B4137 to the junction with the A5127 Lichfield Road. Turn right and follow the A5127 Lichfield Road to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/salford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Salford;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Salford<\/a> Circus.<\/p>\n<p>At Salford Circus take the first exit to re-join the M6 northbound at J6 (Gravelly Hill Interchange\/&#8221;Spaghetti Junction&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M6 motorway is closed in the West Midlands due to a car fire tonight (Monday, April 21).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,11949,748,9734,393,4884,22357,22358,16,15,7858],"class_list":{"0":"post-39368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-airport","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-coleshill","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-m6-motorway","15":"tag-national-highways","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-midlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114378147309827277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368","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=39368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}