{"id":583117,"date":"2026-05-14T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:06:10","slug":"uk-motorway-crash-leads-to-massive-queues-for-drivers-ahead-of-rush-hour-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583117\/","title":{"rendered":"UK motorway crash leads to massive queues for drivers ahead of rush hour | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long tailbacks are building <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2203749\/traffic-chaos-m6-crash-disruption\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the M6<\/a> this morning in the wake of a collision.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/cars\/2200198\/rac-shares-worst-day-bank-holiday-travel\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic is currently at a standstill<\/a> on the M6 northbound in Staffordshire between J14 Stafford and J15 <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/cars\/2203107\/haulage-freight-company-administration\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stoke<\/a> following the incident this morning (Thursday, May 14).<\/p>\n<p>Congestion currently stretches back three miles, with drivers facing delays of at least 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Staffordshire Police and the fire service are in attendance at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THIS BREAKING INCIDENT DOWN BELOW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long tailbacks are building on the M6 this morning in the wake of a collision. Traffic is currently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3846,29322,59,57,58,389,199280,50,2783,43031,1561,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-emergency-news","tag-emergency-services","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m6","tag-m6-crash","tag-news","tag-staffordshire","tag-traffic-delays","tag-traffic-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583117","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=583117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}