{"id":668978,"date":"2026-07-02T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668978\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:00:10","slug":"m60-chaos-recap-after-crash-leaves-motorway-shut-to-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668978\/","title":{"rendered":"M60 chaos RECAP after crash leaves motorway shut to traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The M60 has reopened following a crash tonight. Emergency services were in attendance on the clockwise carriageway this evening (Wednesday, July 1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The clockwise carriageway was shut to traffic between J16 for Clifton and J17 for Prestwich. Motorway traffic cameras showed congestion building in the area amid the police response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Motorists were warned of delays this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A National Highways spokesperson said: &#8220;Traffic stopped on the M60 in Greater Manchester clockwise between J16 Clifton &amp; J17 Prestwich due to a collision. Vehicle recovery and clear up works are underway. Currently delays of 20 minutes with 2 miles of congestion on approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In an update shortly before 11pm, a spokesperson confirmed the motorway had reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They said: &#8220;All lanes now open on the M60 in Greater Manchester clockwise between J16 Clifton &amp; J17 Prestwich. Currently no significant delays on approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M60 has reopened following a crash tonight. Emergency services were in attendance on the clockwise carriageway this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,3607,50,7659,981,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m60","tag-news","tag-prestwich","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668978","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=668978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}