{"id":391013,"date":"2026-01-26T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:38:07","slug":"m6-traffic-live-major-motorway-grinds-to-a-halt-as-serious-collision-sparks-closure-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391013\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 traffic LIVE: Major motorway grinds to a halt as &#8216;serious collision&#8217; sparks closure | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The M6 in the West Midlands is closed Northbound between J6 (Birmingham) and J7\u00a0 (Great Barr) due to a serious collision.<\/p>\n<p>This serious incident has prompted a large emergency services response, though the investigation work is being led by West Midlands Police.<\/p>\n<p>National Highways traffic officers are on scene assisting with full carriageway closures and traffic management measures.<\/p>\n<p>The road has been shut for more than four hours and an exact reopening time has not yet been given.<\/p>\n<p>Any injuries as a result of the collision are not yet known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M6 in the West Midlands is closed Northbound between J6 (Birmingham) and J7\u00a0 (Great Barr) due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26913,2426,59,57,58,61217,50,139097,147341,1561,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-accident","tag-birmingham","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m6-motorway","tag-news","tag-road-closure","tag-serious-collision","tag-traffic-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391013","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=391013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}