{"id":350645,"date":"2026-01-03T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:07:06","slug":"aston-expressway-in-birmingham-closed-over-technology-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350645\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Expressway in Birmingham closed over &#8216;technology fault&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of Birmingham&#8217;s busiest roads closed on Saturday evening due to a &#8220;technology fault&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The A38(M), known as the Aston Expressway, is shut in both directions between Park Circus and Dartmouth Circus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said it was due to a technological fault and urged drivers to allow extra time if they were travelling in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are believed to be in attendance at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Birmingham&#8217;s busiest roads closed on Saturday evening due to a &#8220;technology fault&#8221;. The A38(M), known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-350645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350645","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=350645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}