{"id":647574,"date":"2026-06-19T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647574\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:07:08","slug":"m25-near-leatherhead-closed-due-to-rush-hour-coach-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647574\/","title":{"rendered":"M25 near Leatherhead closed due to rush hour coach fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Significant rush hour delays are expected on the M25 after a coach caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to the fire near Leatherhead at about 16:00 BST on Friday, with the bus parked by the side of the road on the anticlockwise carriageway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eye witnesses reported seeing plumes of smoke and a &#8220;train of people&#8221; being led away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Surrey Fire and Rescue spokesperson confirmed everyone has been accounted for but urged motorists to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All lanes of the M25 near Leatherhead heading anti-clockwise from Junction nine to Junction eight are currently blocked, traffic data suggests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Becky Slack, who saw the blaze, said: &#8220;We were coming on the motorway and saw a lot of smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We realised there was a bus on fire, and another bus parked in front of it. It looked like a train of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Significant rush hour delays are expected on the M25 after a coach caught fire. Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647574","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\/647574","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=647574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}