{"id":624544,"date":"2025-12-10T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624544\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:26:13","slug":"m1-traffic-live-pile-up-on-major-motorway-sparks-2-miles-of-chaos-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624544\/","title":{"rendered":"M1 traffic LIVE: Pile-up on major motorway sparks 2 miles of chaos | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Drivers on a stretch of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"M1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/m1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M1<\/a> are facing evening rush hour traffic delays after a major crash. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"National Highways\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/national-highways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Highways<\/a> said lanes 3 and 4 are closed on the northbound section of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Motorway\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/motorway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motorway<\/a> between junction 28 (Mansfield) and junction 29 (Chesterfield) due to a &#8220;multi-vehicle collision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently two miles of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Traffic News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traffic<\/a> on approach, with drivers warned of at least 20-minute delays above normal journey times. National Highways East Midlands wrote on X: \u00a3Lanes 3 and 4 (of 4) are closed on the #M1 northbound between J28 (#Mansfield) and J29 (#Chesterfield) due to a multi-vehicle collision. Traffic Officers are on scene. There is 2 miles of congestion on approach, causing at least 20 minutes of delays above normal journey time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers on a stretch of the M1 are facing evening rush hour traffic delays after a major crash.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[15008,194038,179557,179560,179559,46078,194039,8088,22358,12,8089,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-624544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-m1","10":"tag-m1-accident","11":"tag-m1-crash","12":"tag-m1-delays","13":"tag-m1-latest","14":"tag-m1-traffic","15":"tag-m1-updates","16":"tag-motorway","17":"tag-national-highways","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-traffic-news","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115696211422685719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624544","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=624544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}