{"id":887163,"date":"2026-04-11T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887163\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:05:29","slug":"m1-westbound-closed-as-emergency-services-attend-incident-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887163\/","title":{"rendered":"M1 westbound closed as emergency services attend incident &#8211; LIVE updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The full closure of the M1 westbound between junction 7 and junction 8 at Sprucefield, Lisburn has taken place following an incident. PSNI officers have been confirmed as attending the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">TrafficWatch NI reported that the incident happened shortly after 3pm on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A PSNI spokesperson said: &#8220;Road users are advised of the full closure of the M1 westbound between junction 7 and junction 8, Sprucefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;All westbound traffic can exit at junction 7 and return at junction 8. Eastbound traffic can exit at junction 8 and return at 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Please seek an alternative route at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Follow our live updates in the blog below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full closure of the M1 westbound between junction 7 and junction 8 at Sprucefield, Lisburn has taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[86570,1144,760,16,15],"class_list":["post-887163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-lisburn","tag-northern-ireland","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116386930887464101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887163","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=887163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}