{"id":443365,"date":"2026-02-24T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443365\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:57:08","slug":"part-of-m25-in-essex-still-shut-after-crash-brings-down-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443365\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of M25 in Essex still shut after crash brings down cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road was closed in both directions while emergency services responded to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An electricity pole and overhead cables were brought down in the collision and 14 properties were left without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The damage had now been made safe by UK Power Networks, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Fire and Rescue Service said junctions 28 and 27 anti-clockwise had opened again but lanes one and two (of four) remained closed for ongoing clear-up work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The windscreen of a second lorry was damaged in the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers were asked to avoid the area and find alternative routes as the lane closures were expected to remain in place for several hours, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A diversion was put in place to central London via the A13 westbound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road was closed in both directions while emergency services responded to the incident. An electricity pole and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-443365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443365","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=443365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}