{"id":583174,"date":"2026-05-14T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583174\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:51:26","slug":"m6-crash-live-updates-as-northbound-carriageway-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583174\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 crash live updates as northbound carriageway &#8216;closed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A &#8216;police incident&#8217; has been reported on the M6 northbound. Traffic has been &#8216;held&#8217; following a collision between junction 14 for Stafford North and junction 15 for Stoke-on-Trent South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The crash was reported at 5.34am this morning. The northbound carriageway was later &#8216;closed&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">National Highways is advising of delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It states: &#8220;The M6 northbound is currently being held northbound between junctions 14 and 15 due to a police-led incident. It follows a road traffic collision. Staffordshire Police are on the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">StokeonTrentLive has approached Staffordshire Police and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service for statements following the collision. Any witnesses can call the police on 101.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">This is a live blog. For the very latest traffic and travel news follow our live blog below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8216;police incident&#8217; has been reported on the M6 northbound. Traffic has been &#8216;held&#8217; following a collision between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,389,50,3542,2888,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m6","tag-news","tag-staffordshire-police","tag-traffic-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583174","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=583174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}