{"id":696912,"date":"2026-01-15T04:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:51:19","slug":"major-road-closed-near-manchester-airport-with-police-at-scene-as-car-left-crushed-following-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696912\/","title":{"rendered":"Major road closed near Manchester Airport with police at scene as car left crushed following crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two casualties were treated at the scene by paramedics<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2_JH_MEN_140126_CRASH_02JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency services responding to the collision\" loading=\"eager\"  \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Emergency services responding to the collision\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Emergency services responding to the collision(Image: Aaron Green)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A major road near to Manchester Airport was closed by emergency crews on Wednesday evening (January 14) with a car left with a crushed bonnet following a collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police, paramedics and fire crews attended the smash at the junction with Finney Lane and Styal Road on the Heald Green area at around 5pm. It involved two vehicles, with a silver Toyota seen badly damaged on a pedestrian island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Two casualties were cared for at the scene by paramedics from the North West Ambulance Service. Greater Manchester Police said it was thought those involved sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pictures showed a large emergency response at the scene, including fire crews and paramedics. The road remained closed for around an hour while the scene was cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \u201cShortly after 5pm this evening (Wednesday 14 January), three fire engines from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/wythenshawe\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Wythenshawe<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/cheadle-and-cheadle-hulme\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Cheadle<\/a> fire stations, alongside the technical response unit from Leigh, were called to attend a road traffic collision involving two vehicles near Finney Lane, Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cCrews arrived quickly and worked alongside <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> to make the area safe. Two casualties were transferred into the care of North West Ambulance Service. Firefighters were in attendance for around forty five minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two casualties were treated at the scene by paramedics Emergency services responding to the collision(Image: Aaron Green) A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,140472,2465,1288,16,15],"class_list":["post-696912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-heald-green","tag-manchester","tag-stockport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115897321669640910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696912","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=696912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}