{"id":616903,"date":"2026-06-02T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:30:09","slug":"major-delays-after-lorry-crashes-into-m66-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616903\/","title":{"rendered":"Major delays after lorry crashes into M66 barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lane two on the northbound carriageway was also closed and there was &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to the central reservation, National Highways said, with debris reported across several lanes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the lorry had a trailer attached that was carrying a roller machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack-knifing is when large vehicle with a trailer loses traction and skids, causing the trailer to swing around and push the cab out, forming a V shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police urged people to plan ahead before travelling, with reports of major traffic congestion across Bury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lane two on the northbound carriageway was also closed and there was &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to the central reservation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616903","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\/616903","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=616903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}