{"id":138452,"date":"2025-09-15T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138452\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:14:07","slug":"drivers-face-delays-due-to-m25-and-m20-closures-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138452\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers face delays due to M25 and M20 closures in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers have been warned to expect delays due to carriageway closures affecting the M25 and M20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The M25 in Kent is closed clockwise after a tipper truck &#8220;struck a bridge&#8221; between Swanley and Orpington, National Highways said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bridge now &#8220;requires a structural inspection&#8221; between junction three, which joins the M20, and junction four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the M20&#8217;s coastbound carriageway is shut between junction seven (Detling Interchange) and junction eight (Hollingbourne) after overnight roadworks were not lifted on schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers have been warned to expect delays due to carriageway closures affecting the M25 and M20. The M25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-138452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}