{"id":869293,"date":"2026-04-03T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/869293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:14:17","slug":"m6-and-m61-traffic-live-updates-as-long-queues-build-after-crash-during-easter-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/869293\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 and M61 traffic LIVE updates as long queues build after crash during Easter getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone thinking of hitting the road and heading north from Greater Manchester for an Easter getaway could see their plans scuppered a bit this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There are long delays on both the M6 and M61 northbound following a crash in Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The incident took place between junctions 32 at Preston and 33 at Lancaster South, with a lane closed through that area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Queues of around half an hour have built up on the M6 northbound, while there are also delays on the M61 for drivers approaching the M6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It is affecting motorists heading towards Blackpool, the Lake District and Scotland on Good Friday, when roads are expected to be busy for the start of the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Updates will follow in this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone thinking of hitting the road and heading north from Greater Manchester for an Easter getaway could see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,8943,51162,2465,760,16,15],"class_list":["post-869293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-m6","tag-m61","tag-manchester","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116340725509122369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869293","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=869293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}