{"id":289863,"date":"2025-11-29T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289863\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:04:11","slug":"m1-traffic-live-huge-crash-on-major-uk-motorway-as-rain-sparks-chaos-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289863\/","title":{"rendered":"M1 traffic LIVE: Huge crash on major UK motorway as rain sparks chaos | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers are facing traffic chaos on the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"M1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/m1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">M1<\/a> this afternoon after a crash partially closed one stretch of the major UK <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Motorway\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/motorway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">motorway<\/a>. National Highways said there has been a crash on the M1 northbound at junction 28, with one of four lanes closed.<\/p>\n<p>Motorway camera footage from the scene shows police holding <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Traffic News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traffic<\/a> in one section and queuing traffic further on.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic England, an online service run by National Highways that provides live traffic information flags the incident as a &#8220;road traffic collision&#8221;, and currently says it expects normal traffic conditions to return between 3.30pm and 3.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a huge crash on the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"M25\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/m25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">M25<\/a> earlier today, which sparked more travel chaos and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2140196\/m25-traffic-live-delays-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">delays of up to 60 minutes for motorists<\/a>. The crashes come with torrential rain hammering the UK, with the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Met Office\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/met-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Met Office<\/a> issuing <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\/2139860\/met-office-weather-warnings-saturday?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">yellow weather warnings for 77 areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG BELOW FOR THE LATEST UPDATES:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers are facing traffic chaos on the M1 this afternoon after a crash partially closed one stretch of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,2665,106748,106751,106750,106747,43028,1563,50,1561,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-289863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m1","tag-m1-crash","tag-m1-delays","tag-m1-latest","tag-m1-traffic","tag-motorway","tag-national-highways","tag-news","tag-traffic-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289863","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=289863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}