{"id":579825,"date":"2026-05-12T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579825\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:50:09","slug":"m5-traffic-motorcycle-crash-closes-northbound-carriageway-near-tewkesbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579825\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 traffic: Motorcycle crash closes northbound carriageway near Tewkesbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A section of the M5 is closed following a serious crash involving a motorcyclist, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The northbound carriageway near Tewkesbury is shut between Junction 10 (Cheltenham) and Junction 9 (Tewkesbury) after the collision which happened at about 09:50 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services remain at the scene and the motorcyclist is currently being assessed by paramedics after sustaining suspected serious injuries, Gloucestershire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The closure is expected to remain in place for a number of hours, and motorists have been urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of the M5 is closed following a serious crash involving a motorcyclist, police say. The northbound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-579825","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\/579825","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=579825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}