{"id":550400,"date":"2025-11-05T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/550400\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:38:12","slug":"m40-closed-in-warwickshire-after-lorry-crashes-across-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/550400\/","title":{"rendered":"M40 closed in Warwickshire after lorry crashes across reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to the central reservation barrier and emergency repairs would be needed, National Highways said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All traffic caught within the closure on the southbound carriageway has been released, and vehicles were being diverted via local routes, National Highways said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It advised people to plan ahead and stated if the closure &#8220;impacts on your planned route, please allow extra journey time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The roads body added that all emergency services attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday night, police said they were working as quickly as possible with partners to recover vehicles and to help those stuck in traffic, adding: &#8220;Thank you for everyone&#8217;s patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to the central reservation barrier and emergency repairs would be needed, National Highways said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-550400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115496426178258509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550400","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=550400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}