{"id":58586,"date":"2025-04-28T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58586\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:32:10","slug":"m6-traffic-diversion-route-as-serious-crash-leaves-motorway-closed-in-merseyside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58586\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 traffic diversion route as &#8216;serious&#8217; crash leaves motorway closed in Merseyside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The northbound carriageway is expected to remain closed into the early hours of Tuesday<a class=\"Badge_badge-link__41H_0 \" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/\" data-testid=\"badge-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_e30e61\">Tom Burnett<\/strong> Content Editor<\/p>\n<p>23:01, 28 Apr 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_M6-April-28-1JPG.jpg\" alt=\"The M6 remains closed \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The M6 remains closed (Image: National Highways )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A traffic diversion route is in place after a crash left the M6 shut in Merseyside tonight (Monday, April 28).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The northbound carriageway is closed between Junction 22 and Junction 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The closure was first reported at around 9.30pm &#8211; <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/greater-manchester-news\/live-m6-traffic-updates-motorway-31529421\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">and you can see the latest live updates here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A National Highways spokesperson said: &#8220;The M6 in Merseyside is closed northbound between J22 (Winwick) &amp; J23 (Haydock Island) due to a serious road traffic collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Emergency services are in attendance and are being assisted by National Highways Traffic Officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The closure is expected to remain in place for several hours for collision investigation, recovery and clear-up work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>M6 diversion route tonight:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">National Highways has the following diversion route in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Motorists are advised to follow the Solid Square diversion symbols on local road signs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Exit the M6 at J22. At the A579A572 junction turn right onto the A572 northbound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At the A572\/B5207 junction turn left onto the B5207 northbound. At the B5207\/A580 junction turn right onto the A580 westbound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At the A580\/M6 junction turn left onto the Gyratory and take the 4th exit to re-join the M6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The northbound carriageway is expected to remain closed into the early hours of TuesdayNews Tom Burnett Content Editor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,8943,2615,274,760,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-58586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-m6","13":"tag-merseyside","14":"tag-merseyside-police","15":"tag-traffic-and-travel","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114417968398031272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58586","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=58586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}