{"id":501655,"date":"2026-03-29T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501655\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:11:09","slug":"car-crashing-into-water-closes-m6-motorway-near-knutford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501655\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashing into water closes M6 motorway near Knutford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The M6 motorway has been closed in Cheshire for several hours after a car which left the road crashed into water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver was rescued by a firefighter after their car came to &#8220;rest on the edge of a brook with the rear of the vehicle partially in the water&#8221;, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said the southbound carriageway would be closed for &#8220;several hours&#8221; between junction 19 for Knutsford and junction 18 for Middlewich after the 02:30 BST crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rescued driver was taken to hospital, the fire brigade added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M6 motorway has been closed in Cheshire for several hours after a car which left the road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501655","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=501655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}