{"id":523104,"date":"2026-04-10T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:56:09","slug":"woman-hit-by-car-on-m621-near-leeds-is-seriously-injured-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523104\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman hit by car on M621 near Leeds is seriously injured &#8211; police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman was left with &#8220;very serious injuries&#8221; after being hit by a vehicle on a motorway near Leeds, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The car is reported to have struck the woman on the clockwise carriageway of the M621 near Holbeck at about 04:50 BST, according to West Yorkshire Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident &#8220;remains ongoing&#8221;, they said, with a full closure in place in both directions on the three-mile (4.8km) stretch between junction one of the M621 and junction 27 of the M62.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polcice urged drivers were urged to avoid the M621 motorway, which they said was expected to remain closed &#8220;for some time&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was left with &#8220;very serious injuries&#8221; after being hit by a vehicle on a motorway near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523105,"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-523104","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\/523104","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=523104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}