{"id":27037,"date":"2018-08-01T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27037"},"modified":"2018-08-01T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:54:05","slug":"heavy-delays-on-the-m5-after-crash-between-lorry-and-cars-blocks-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/01\/heavy-delays-on-the-m5-after-crash-between-lorry-and-cars-blocks-motorway\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Delays on the M5 after crash between lorry and cars blocks motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Motorists were informed of long delays after a crash on the M5 blocked the motorway in both directions. The crash happened between junctions one and two where a major roadworks scheme is in progress at Oldbury Viaduct.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lorry and two cars were involved in the smash between West Bromwich and Oldbury at approximately 7.30am.<\/p>\n<p>Highways England officials warned motorists of delays as traffic queued in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery work was under way at the scene. Traffic was previously building up three miles back northbound to Halesowen at junction three with delays reported of around 30 minutes<\/p>\n<p>And the route was heavily congested southbound past the M6 link at Great Barr towards J10 at Walsall with long backlogs of up to an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The issue caused knock-on problems on neighbouring routes including around Birchley Island at junction two and Wolverhampton Road.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Road past The Hawthorns and A41 The Expressway in West Bromwich is also heavily congested.<\/p>\n<p>Highways England officials said: &#8220;Delays are building on approach, please consider alternative routes this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The section is already under a contraflow system with a 30 mph limit due to repair work to the elevated motorway at the viaduct.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Ambulance Service say crews have not been called to attend the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists were informed of long delays after a crash on the M5 blocked the motorway in both directions. The crash happened between junctions one and two where a major roadworks scheme is in progress at Oldbury Viaduct.\u00a0 A lorry and two cars were involved in the smash between West Bromwich and Oldbury at approximately 7.30am. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":27038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112,49],"tags":[1329,1333,1330,1328,1331,1332],"class_list":["post-27037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","category-travel","tag-accident","tag-delays","tag-highways-england","tag-m5","tag-oldbury","tag-west-bromwich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}