{"id":511490,"date":"2026-04-03T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:25:08","slug":"m25-crash-near-thurrock-and-upminster-causes-queuing-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511490\/","title":{"rendered":"M25 crash near Thurrock and Upminster causes queuing traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of the M25 in Essex has been closed in both directions after a serious collision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said emergency services including an air ambulance were at the scene between junction 29 at Upminster and junction 30 at Aveley in Thurrock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to traffic monitoring system Inrix, the incident happened on the anti-clockwise carriageway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhighways.co.uk\/travel-updates\/travel-alerts\/m25-essex-both-directions-serious-collision-road-closed-between-j29-and-j30\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said traffic going clockwise was being diverted, external<\/a> from junction 29 on to the A127. Whereas anti-clockwise traffic was diverted from junction 30 on to the A13 towards Tilbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of the M25 in Essex has been closed in both directions after a serious collision. National Highways&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511491,"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-511490","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\/511490","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=511490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}