{"id":881975,"date":"2026-04-09T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/881975\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:04:16","slug":"a38-in-bristol-closed-by-police-with-major-delays-into-city-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/881975\/","title":{"rendered":"A38 in Bristol closed by police with major delays into city &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police and paramedics are at the scene of an incident in Bristol this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The A38 Gloucester Road North has been closed near the junction with Red Rose Street as of around 7.30am today (Thursday, April 9).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A local witness said the road was closed &#8220;near Filton run way&#8221;, adding: &#8220;Loads of police shut the side road off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There are long queues in the area, with congestion as far back as Highnam Close in Patchway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Avon and Somerset Police has not yet confirmed details about the incident but have asked drivers to avoid the area this morning. A diversion is in place on Red Rose Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">We will keep you updated with our live blog below. Send us information or pictures if it is safe to do so <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bristol.live\/&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1741081326032546&amp;usg=AOvVaw2x5Ts82v-jRSOKDvpRgu0x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">here <\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and paramedics are at the scene of an incident in Bristol this morning. The A38 Gloucester Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,393,10300,867,4884,23340,9731,16,15],"class_list":["post-881975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-filton","tag-google","tag-great-britain","tag-patchway","tag-traffic-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116373714808021093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881975","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=881975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}