{"id":478414,"date":"2026-03-16T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478414\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:02:08","slug":"crash-involving-15-vehicles-on-m73-closes-motorway-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478414\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash involving 15 vehicles on M73 closes motorway overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash involving 15 vehicles closed a major Scots motorway overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the collision on the M73 before midnight on Sunday, with the road closed northbound between junction 2 at Gartcosh and junction 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent three fire appliances and a heavy rescue unit to the scene, as ambulance crews also attended.<\/p>\n<p>The road reopened just before 4am on Monday, Traffic Scotland said.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown if anyone was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash involving 15 vehicles closed a major Scots motorway overnight. Emergency services were called to the collision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-478414","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\/478414","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=478414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}