{"id":466717,"date":"2025-10-01T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/466717\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:03:13","slug":"huge-m5-rush-hour-queues-after-car-transporter-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/466717\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge M5 rush hour queues after car transporter fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drivers are warned of miles of queues ahead of rush hour<\/p>\n

17:22, 01 Oct 2025Updated 17:50, 01 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

Drivers are stuck in traffic as smoke plumes over the M5(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n

Drivers have been warned of miles of queues and long delays on the M5<\/a> ahead of rush hour after a huge fire broke out this morning (Wednesday, October 1).<\/p>\n

Over ten hours after the inferno which engulfed an electric car transporter broke out on the motorway, motorists still face delays.<\/p>\n

National Highways has warned drivers of roughly four miles of tailbacks and delays of at least 45 minutes ahead of the evening rush hour.<\/p>\n

The southbound carriageway of the M5 remains closed between Cullompton<\/a> and Exeter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vehicle recovery and clean-up work is ongoing from the fire.<\/p>\n

National Highways said: “The #M5 southbound remains closed between J28 #Cullompton and J29 # Honiton<\/a> @Exeter_Airport following an earlier vehicle fire.<\/p>\n

“Recovery and clean up work ongoing.<\/p>\n

“There are approximately four miles of congestion on approach causing at least 45 min delays above normal journey times.”<\/p>\n

Follow our live blog here for the latest updates.<\/a><\/p>\n

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue<\/a> Service has said: “We were called at 6.38am to reports of a vehicle fire on the M5 between junctions 28 and 29. On arrival, a car transporter carrying nine electric vehicles was fully involved in fire.<\/p>\n

“We currently have six appliances and two water bowsers in attendance, and crews have made good progress to tackle the fire and prevent it from escalating. Only a small fire involving cars on the top deck remains.<\/p>\n

“As of 1.23pm, the fire is out but the vehicles on the bottom tier of the transporter are having their temperatures monitored to ensure they are safe to be moved and recovered.<\/p>\n

“The northbound carriageway is open, and the southbound carriageway is still closed.”<\/p>\n

Devon and Cornwall Police said: “Emergency services are continuing their work on the south-bound carriageway between Junctions 29 and 28 following a lorry fire, near Cullompton, this morning.<\/p>\n

“Our officers have been working with Highways colleagues to clear the backlog of traffic on the motorway.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers are warned of miles of queues ahead of rush hour 17:22, 01 Oct 2025Updated 17:50, 01 Oct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[155380,41353,12,9731,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-466717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-devon-and-somerset-fire-and-rescue","10":"tag-exeter","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-traffic-travel","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115300939387317444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466717","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=466717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}