\n Residents shared the warnings with others on social media, with one woman saying it should be avoided as the flooding was ‘dangerous’.\n<\/p>\n
\n The road had flooded near the Shell garage, just a few metres away from The Big Lamp Roundabout and at the junction of Crompton Way and High Street.\n<\/p>\n
\n The flood in the road (Image: Facebook)\n<\/p>\n
\n A video posted to Facebook showed a car managing to drive through the dark coloured water by driving close to the central reservation, with the flood appearing deeper closer to the entrance to the petrol station.\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Lisa Navesey commented on one post to say that she had reported the issue to the emergency department in the council.\n<\/p>\n
\n Crompton Way, Shaw, flooded (Image: I LOVE SHAW)\n<\/p>\n
\n It has not been confirmed what action has been taken to clear the flood.\n<\/p>\n
\n Images from the scene show the pavement completely underwater and the flood spreading the width of the northbound carriageway.\n<\/p>\n
\n One person commented on a post that they had ‘never seen’ the area flood.\n<\/p>\n
\n Oldham Council has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents shared the warnings with others on social media, with one woman saying it should be avoided as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583559","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=583559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}