{"id":395146,"date":"2025-09-03T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395146\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:01:18","slug":"m8-crash-as-lorry-smashes-through-barrier-in-glasgow-and-person-rushed-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395146\/","title":{"rendered":"M8 crash as lorry smashes through barrier in Glasgow and person rushed to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency services raced to the busy motorway, near Junction 22 for Plantation, after the alarm was raised at around 2.20pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

18:10, 03 Sep 2025Updated 18:12, 03 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

\"EmergencyEmergency services at the scene on Wednesday afternoon(Image: Steve Welsh)<\/p>\n

A person has been rushed to hospital after a lorry crashed through a barrier on the M8 in Glasgow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Emergency services<\/a> raced to the busy motorway, near Junction 22 for Plantation, after the alarm was raised at around 2.20pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A picture taken from the scene showed the huge emergency response<\/a> after the HGV appeared to go through a central reservation.<\/p>\n

Fire crews rescued a casualty from a vehicle following the crash before they were blue-lighted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment<\/a>. Their condition currently remains unknown.<\/p>\n

Three lanes of the M8 were closed eastbound, including the feeder road towards the M74, following the incident.<\/p>\n

Huge delays<\/a> were reported during rush hour as a result, including queues of up to 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service dispatched five appliances to the scene and left after making the area safe.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 2.22pm on Wednesday, September 3 to reports of a road traffic collision on the M8 Eastbound.<\/p>\n

“Operations Control mobilised five appliances to the scene, where firefighters worked to remove one casualty from their vehicle.<\/p>\n

“The casualty was thereafter taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital by Scottish Ambulance Service personnel for treatment. Firefighters left the scene after working to make the area safe.”<\/p>\n

In the latest update, posted at 5.55pm, Traffic Scotland said: “M8 – J22. A collision is partially blocking the E\/B M8 at J22. M8 main carriageway is now fully OPEN…all lanes are running. Lanes 3 & 4 are still blocked on the #M8 Secondary carriageway (For the #M74) Travel time on the #M8 currently 20 mins (Appx).”<\/p>\n

A Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: “Lanes have re-opened on the M8 eastbound at junction 22 following a crash reported around 2.25pm on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.<\/p>\n

“Emergency services attended and one person was taken to hospital for treatment. Thank you to road users for their patience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services raced to the busy motorway, near Junction 22 for Plantation, after the alarm was raised at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,2605,918,4884,530,712,1143,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-395146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue-service","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115141678829677763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395146","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=395146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}