{"id":606403,"date":"2026-05-27T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:15:08","slug":"a9-closed-in-both-directions-after-lorry-bursts-into-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606403\/","title":{"rendered":"A9 closed in both directions after lorry bursts into flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eyewitness Eucharia Amarachi Innocent-Anunobi told BBC Scotland she had been &#8220;stuck&#8221; on a bus near the scene since about 06:50, but has now been diverted through Bankfoot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;At first there were no police but lots of police and fire engines have now arrived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Police officers approached our coach and said the road would be closed all day because of the level of damage the fire caused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the bus had been diverted through Bankfoot, where there was now very heavy traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Police Scotland confirmed the road was closed in both directions and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eyewitness Eucharia Amarachi Innocent-Anunobi told BBC Scotland she had been &#8220;stuck&#8221; on a bus near the scene since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606403","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\/606403","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=606403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}