{"id":391993,"date":"2026-01-26T22:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391993\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:13:08","slug":"m25-traffic-huge-crash-sparks-part-closure-and-severe-delays-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391993\/","title":{"rendered":"M25 traffic: Huge crash sparks part closure and severe delays | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious crash on a section of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"M25\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/m25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">M25<\/a> has sparked a partial closure of the UK&#8217;s busiest <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Motorway\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/motorway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">motorway<\/a>, with drivers facing <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Traffic News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traffic<\/a> chaos and severe delays. It&#8217;s believed that traffic has backed up to the Dartford Crossing as National Highways reports five miles of congestion.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the four lanes on the anti-clockwise section at junction 30 have been closed following a crash that left an overturned car. Essex Police, Essex Fire Service, and the East of England Ambulance Service have rushed to the scene. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"National Highways\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/national-highways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Highways<\/a> East wrote on X: &#8220;NEW INCIDENT. #M25 anti-clockwise at J30 (#A13, #Thurrock, #Lakeside, #Tilbury) #Essex. LANES CLOSED. 2 lanes (of 4) closed due to a collision resulting in an overturned car. @EssexPoliceUK, @ECFRS &amp; @EastEnglandAmb on scene. Long delays back to J1b of #A282 #Dartford.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THIS BLOG IS CLOSED. READ OUR COVERAGE BELOW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious crash on a section of the M25 has sparked a partial closure of the UK&#8217;s busiest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,20168,37491,116391,147592,43028,1563,50,1561,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m25","tag-m25-crash","tag-m25-delays","tag-m25-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\/391993","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=391993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}