{"id":524914,"date":"2026-04-11T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:19:08","slug":"two-teenagers-die-in-m1-crash-in-leicestershire-as-car-leaves-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524914\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teenagers die in M1 crash in Leicestershire as &#8216;car leaves bridge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two teenagers have died after the car they were travelling in is believed to have left a road bridge and crashed into a minibus on the motorway below, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire Police was called to the southbound carriageway of the M1 at about 13:35 BST on Friday following a report that a blue car travelling along Gilmorton Lane towards Lutterworth, had left the road bridge on to the carriageway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both teenagers travelling in the blue car were declared dead at the scene, while the minibus driver and three passengers were taken to hospital with &#8220;non-life-threatening injuries&#8221;, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man driving the van has been discharged but three women remain in hospital, the force said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers have died after the car they were travelling in is believed to have left a road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-524914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524914","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=524914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}