{"id":610988,"date":"2026-05-29T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610988\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:11:10","slug":"multi-vehicle-m5-crash-near-bristol-causes-45-minute-queue-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610988\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Multi-vehicle&#8217; M5 crash near Bristol causes 45-minute queue &#8211; updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Long queues have now cleared on the M5 near Bristol following a crash involving several vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Delays of 45 minutes were reported on the northbound side of the motorway this evening (Friday, May 29) near the Almondsbury Interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">National Highways advised via X shortly after 6.30pm: &#8220;The #M5 in #Somerset is blocked northbound between J15 #Almondsbury &amp; J14 #Thornbury due to a multi-vehicle collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;@ASPolice &amp; @swasFT are en route. Current delays of 45 minutes and 3 miles of congestion on approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Traffic-monitoring site Inrix reported: &#8220;M5 Northbound blocked, severe delays due to multi-vehicle accident from J15 M4 J20 (Almondsbury Interchange) to J14 B4509 (Thornbury \/ Falfield). Congestion to J17 (Cribbs Causeway).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Delays have now cleared and all lanes have reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Send us information or pictures if it is safe to do so <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/somersetlive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">here <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long queues have now cleared on the M5 near Bristol following a crash involving several vehicles. Delays of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,38927,50,3882,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m5","tag-news","tag-somerset","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610988","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=610988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}