{"id":396577,"date":"2026-01-29T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396577\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:54:07","slug":"lorry-fire-causes-long-delays-on-m4-between-bristol-and-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396577\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorry fire causes long delays on M4 between Bristol and Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two lanes of a busy motorway are shut due to a lorry fire, causing long delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The M4 was closed westbound between Bath\/Tormarton at junction 18 and Bristol at junction 19, at 05:55 GMT on Thursday but has since partially reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers currently face delays of 30 minutes, National Highways said on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The motorway is not expected to reopen fully until at least 11:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two lanes of a busy motorway are shut due to a lorry fire, causing long delays. The M4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396577","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\/396577","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=396577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}