{"id":61312,"date":"2025-08-12T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61312\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:37:03","slug":"east-lancs-road-traffic-live-huge-car-fire-shuts-road-as-smoke-seen-for-miles-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61312\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lancs Road traffic LIVE: Huge car fire shuts road as smoke seen for miles | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of East Lancs Road near St Helens in Merseyside has been closed after a car fire. Dramtic pictures show flames and smoke billowing from the scene this morning (Tuesday, August 12).<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services rushed to the scene at around 6.50am and the eastbound carriageway is now shut. Drivers are being urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG BELOW FOR UPDATES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of East Lancs Road near St Helens in Merseyside has been closed after a car fire. Dramtic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32964,32965,32966,59,57,58,32967,50,2685,1561,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-61312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-cars-section","9":"tag-east-lancs-road","10":"tag-east-lancs-road-fire","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-greatbritain","14":"tag-haydock","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-st-helens","17":"tag-traffic-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61312","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=61312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}