{"id":604931,"date":"2025-12-01T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604931\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:40:17","slug":"crash-closes-m5-near-bristol-and-m48-also-shut-due-to-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604931\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash closes M5 near Bristol and M48 also shut due to high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The M5 was closed in both directions following a &#8220;serious collision&#8221; in the early hours of the morning, police said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The motorway was shut at 02:00 GMT between J20 near Clevedon and J21 near Weston-super-Mare, according to Avon and Somerset Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two lanes on the northbound carriageway have now reopened but the road is not expected to fully reopen until about 11:45 GMT, National Highways reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere the M48 Severn Bridge is also closed in both directions due to strong winds, with the Met Office recording gusts of up to 45mph (72km\/h).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M5 was closed in both directions following a &#8220;serious collision&#8221; in the early hours of the morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-604931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115643418106478380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604931","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=604931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}