{"id":967542,"date":"2026-05-17T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/967542\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:24:16","slug":"busy-scots-road-closed-as-emergency-services-scrambled-to-the-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/967542\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Scots road CLOSED as emergency services scrambled to the scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" data-no-modal=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Off-platform-pics-2026-05-17T212033.826.png\" alt=\"Street view of a road with a roundabout in the distance, surrounded by trees and buildings under a cloudy sky.\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16274889\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A BUSY Scots road has been closed following a crash. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/emergency-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency services<\/a> raced to the scene on the A907 Clackmannan Road in Alloa at around 2.40pm this afternoon after the alarm was raised. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Scottish Sun newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It is not known if anyone was injured in the smash. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported seeing an air <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/ambulance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambulance<\/a> circling overhead.<\/p>\n<p>A heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a> presence was also spotted at the scene earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The road remains closed between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/morrisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morrisons<\/a> and Shillinghill roundabout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-readmore__headline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tREAD MORE ON THE SCOTTISH SUN\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Motorists and the wider public have been urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/police-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: \u201cThe A907 Clackmannan Road in Alloa is closed between the Morrisons roundabout and the Shillinghill roundabout following a crash reported to police around 2.40pm on Sunday, 17 May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad users and the public are advised to avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/scottish-ambulance-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Ambulance Service<\/a> has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMost read in The Scottish Sun\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BUSY Scots road has been closed following a crash. Emergency services raced to the scene on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,529,530,297,712,5120,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-967542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-road-laws","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-scottish-crime","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116592500434144022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967542","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=967542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}