{"id":615910,"date":"2026-06-01T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:33:08","slug":"m6-traffic-in-staffordshire-at-a-standstill-after-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615910\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 traffic in Staffordshire at a standstill after incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The M6 in Staffordshire was closed in both directions for more than an hour on Monday evening while police dealt with an incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said it affected a section of the motorway between junction 14 for Creswell and 15 for Hanchurch, reporting the issue shortly before 20:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added police attended the scene and diversions were put in place, with queues of up to 40 minutes, although some people on social media complained of longer waits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road was cleared before 21:00 BST, but motorists were warned that traffic could be slow while the build up cleared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M6 in Staffordshire was closed in both directions for more than an hour on Monday evening while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615910","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\/615910","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=615910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}