Drivers were set for traffic woes on Monday afternoon as a police incident prompted long delays. The A1(M) was closed in both directions before 5pm on October 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Traffic cameras showed long delays, stretching from M1 Aberford By Pass to J44 A64 (York\/Tadcaster). West Yorkshire Police said the incident concerned a “pedestrian”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a post on X at 4.32pm, National Highways said: “Traffic is currently stopped on the #A1M in both directions between J43 #M1 and J44 #York #Leeds.<\/p>\n
It added that West Yorkshire Police are “currently dealing with an incident involving a pedestrian and require the traffic stopped to ensure safety”, and that there are long delays in both directions.<\/p>\n
In a subsequent update at 4.49, National Highways traffic has now been “released on the #A1M between J42 #Selby #A63 and J44 #York #Leeds”, following the closure.<\/p>\n
National Highways said West Yorkshire Police “have now safely resolved the incident and both directions have reopened and traffic is now flowing”.<\/p>\n
However, it added that here are “long residual delays with several miles of congestion in both directions”.<\/p>\n
THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. FOLLOW OUR COVERAGE BELOW.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers were set for traffic woes on Monday afternoon as a police incident prompted long delays. The A1(M)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[172190,1500,8088,12,172191,52454,8089,16,15,20653,2302],"class_list":{"0":"post-531495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-a1m-closure","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-motorway","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pedestrian-incident","14":"tag-traffic-delays","15":"tag-traffic-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-yorkshire-police","19":"tag-yorkshire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115447219097365747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531495","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=531495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}