{"id":567060,"date":"2026-05-05T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567060\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:03:10","slug":"m5-traffic-hour-long-queues-after-significant-diesel-spillage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567060\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 traffic: Hour-long queues after &#8216;significant diesel spillage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;significant diesel spillage&#8221; following a crash on the M5 has caused a section of the motorway to close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The southbound motorway has been shut between junction 22 near Burnham-on-Sea and junction 23 near Bridgwater in Somerset after a crash between a car and fuel tanker at about 04:30 BST. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avon and Somerset Police said it was not believed anyone had been seriously injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service added: &#8220;Thankfully, there were no casualties but there was some fuel spillage from the tanker which is currently being cleared up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;significant diesel spillage&#8221; following a crash on the M5 has caused a section of the motorway to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-567060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567060","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=567060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}