{"id":900399,"date":"2026-04-17T09:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/900399\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:48:15","slug":"m66-traffic-road-closed-in-both-directions-due-to-police-incident-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/900399\/","title":{"rendered":"M66 traffic: Road closed in both directions due to &#8216;police incident&#8217; | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road users travelling northbound are advised to follow the solid triangle diversion symbol visible on local road signs.<\/p>\n<p>Leave the M66 northbound at Junction 3.<br \/>\nFrom the northbound slip roads at Junction 3, turn right onto Pilsworth Road, heading east, and continue for a short distance.<br \/>\nAt the junction with Moss Hall Road, turn left and continue north. Moss Hall Road becomes Heap Brow.<br \/>\nAt the junction of Heap Brow and the A58 (Heap Bridge), turn left onto the A58.<br \/>\nAt the A58 and M66 Junction 2 roundabout, take the fourth exit to rejoin the M66 northbound.<\/p>\n<p>There is an eighteen\u2011tonne weight restriction on this diversion route between 8pm and 6am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Road users travelling northbound are advised to follow the solid triangle diversion symbol visible on local road signs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[253604,253606,2465,253605,253607,12,21730,41515,44655,8089,16,15],"class_list":["post-900399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-m66-closure","tag-m66-motorway","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-motorway","tag-manchester-traffic","tag-news","tag-police-incident","tag-road-closure","tag-traffic-disruption","tag-traffic-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900399","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=900399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}