{"id":521701,"date":"2025-10-23T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521701\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:15:14","slug":"motorists-warned-after-m8-crash-disrupts-morning-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521701\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists warned after M8 crash disrupts morning traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/traffic\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traffic<\/a> Scotland said that the motorway heading east has been restricted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/livingston-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Livingston<\/a> due to a &#8220;multi-vehicle collision&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Traffic is said to be &#8220;heavily congested&#8221;, with cars backed between Bathgate and Broxburn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All damaged vehicles have been removed from the road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read More:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emergency services are at the scene. No injuries have been reported.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n    New \u2757\ufe0f\u231a\ufe0f07:00<br \/>\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#M8<\/a> Jct 3-2<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0fThe M8 is currently restricted Eastbound at Livingston due to a multi vehicle collision<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8Emergency services attending the scene<\/p>\n<p>\u23f1\ufe0fDelays are approx. 20 minutes currently and will continue to be monitored<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce3Updates to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SETrunkRoads?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@SETrunkRoads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pO9NHKhDe9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pO9NHKhDe9<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Traffic Scotland (@trafficscotland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trafficscotland\/status\/1981239914110079184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 23, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n  Traffic Scotland said on social media: &#8220;The M8 is currently restricted Eastbound at Livingston due to a multi vehicle collision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Emergency services attending the scene. Delays are approx. 20 minutes currently and will continue to be monitored.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic Scotland said that the motorway heading east has been restricted at Livingston due to a &#8220;multi-vehicle collision&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-521701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115422489674708755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521701","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=521701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}