{"id":639677,"date":"2026-06-15T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:43:10","slug":"m5-traffic-multi-vehicle-crash-near-taunton-sparks-motorway-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639677\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 traffic: Multi-vehicle crash near Taunton sparks motorway delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A crash between three cars has caused delays on a motorway in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police were called to an incident involving three vehicles on the M5 southbound between junction 24 for Bridgwater and junction 25 for Taunton at 07:45 BST on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to National Highways south west, two lanes were closed but have since reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash between three cars has caused delays on a motorway in Somerset. Police were called to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639677","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\/639677","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=639677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}