{"id":507290,"date":"2026-04-01T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:26:09","slug":"a61-serious-incident-major-road-reopens-after-police-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507290\/","title":{"rendered":"A61 &#8216;serious incident&#8217;: Major road reopens after police warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service issued a statement which read: &#8220;We are currently in attendance at a road traffic collision on the Horns Bridge roundabout in Chesterfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Two fire engines are in attendance alongside other emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Horns Bridge roundabout leading to the A617 towards the M1 is closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The A61 southbound is also closed between Tesco, on Lockoford Lane, and Horns Bridge and is expected to remain closed for much of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Please avoid the area and find alternative routes. There is a large amount of standing traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service issued a statement which read: &#8220;We are currently in attendance at a road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102970,177866,59,57,58,2665,50,981,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-507290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-chesterfield","tag-derbyshire-fire-and-rescue-service","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m1","tag-news","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507290","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=507290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}