{"id":672233,"date":"2026-07-03T20:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672233\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:10:12","slug":"m5-delays-near-droitwich-after-lorry-crash-spills-diesel-across-carriageway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672233\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 delays near Droitwich after lorry crash spills diesel across carriageway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers are being warned of long delays in Worcestershire after a lorry jackknifed and crashed into the central reservation of the M5, blocking lanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to reports that the HGV had crashed and spilt its diesel fuel tank on the northbound carriageway, between junction five, near Droitwich and junction 4a for the M42, at about 15:20 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One man was given medical treatment at the scene, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lane closures were expected to remain in place for several hours while recovery and clean-up work was carried out, National Highways said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Traffic within the closure was being released past the scene in one lane, a spokesperson added, with drivers warned of delays of up to 60 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers are being warned of long delays in Worcestershire after a lorry jackknifed and crashed into the central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672233","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\/672233","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=672233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}