{"id":599110,"date":"2026-04-12T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599110\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:50:15","slug":"road-closure-after-multi-vehicle-oil-spill-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599110\/","title":{"rendered":"Road closure after multi-vehicle oil spill crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A section of a major road in Hampshire has been closed overnight after a multi-vehicle crash caused an oil spill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The westbound carriageway of the A303, near Andover, remains shut following the crash between Quarley and Shipton Bellinger at about 12:30 BST on Saturday. The eastbound carriageway reopened at about 16:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash caused a &#8220;significant fuel and oil spillage, which resulted in damage to the road surface, which now requires resurfacing&#8221;, National Highways said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It said it expected the road to remain closed until Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some motorists remained stationary for more than four hours following the incident, with National Highways assisting those caught within the closure to leave the area by turning around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emergency services including an air ambulance attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/england\/hampshire?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Hampshire &amp; Isle of Wight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;BBC Hampshire &amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">BBC Hampshire &amp; Isle of Wight<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hampshirebbc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcsouthnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X (Twitter);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;X (Twitter)&quot;}\" class=\"link \">X (Twitter)<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbchampshire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Related internet links<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of a major road in Hampshire has been closed overnight after a multi-vehicle crash caused an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[94717,49,48,227060,44,223263,227062,227061],"class_list":{"0":"post-599110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-andover","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-national-highways","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-oil-spill","14":"tag-serious-crash","15":"tag-shipton-bellinger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}