{"id":92104,"date":"2025-05-11T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92104\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:00:09","slug":"m6-delays-vehicle-catches-fire-after-collision-between-junction-6-7-between-birmingham-and-great-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92104\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 delays: Vehicle catches fire after collision between Junction 6 &#038; 7 between Birmingham and Great Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle caught fire following a collision on the M6 between Junction 6 and 7 northbound between Birmingham and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/great-barr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Barr<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhighways.co.uk\/our-roads\/west-midlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Highways West Midlands<\/a> reported the collision on social media at around 6.49am and posted a shocking picture of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmfs.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Fire Service<\/a> attended the incident. Fire fighters left the scene at around 7.10am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fbdf6afe-92a5-43f2-9bf9-83d96881e210.jpeg\"   alt=\"Vehicle catches fire following a collision on the M6 between J6 &amp; 7 northbound on Sunday, May 11\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Vehicle catches fire following a collision on the M6 between J6 &amp; 7 northbound on Sunday, May 11<\/p>\n<p>In its latest update at 7.30am National Highways West Midlands said that recovery had been completed, warning drivers to expect delays of up to 20 minutes on approach &#8211; while urging motorists to check routes before heading out.<\/p>\n<p>A clean up continues.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for National Highways West Midlands said: \u201cOur team crews remain at the scene working to treat the carriageway and clear debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We will bring you further updates when we receive them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle caught fire following a collision on the M6 between Junction 6 and 7 northbound between Birmingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,25038,4884,379,12,12608,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-92104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-barr","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sandwell","16":"tag-transport","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114487913534673227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92104","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=92104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}