{"id":373204,"date":"2026-01-16T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373204\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:54:07","slug":"long-delays-as-m6-closed-after-woman-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373204\/","title":{"rendered":"Long delays as M6 closed after woman found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The M6 is expected to be closed for several hours after a woman was found dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both carriageways of the motorway were closed between junctions 23 at Haydock and 26 at Orrell, near Wigan, from shortly after 08:00 GMT, causing miles of tailbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police said it was called following concerns for the welfare of a woman at about 07:42 GMT but she was found dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways North West said it could not estimate when the motorway would re-open and expected it to remain closed &#8220;throughout the day&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M6 is expected to be closed for several hours after a woman was found dead. Both carriageways&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-373204","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\/373204","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=373204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}