{"id":686710,"date":"2026-07-11T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T22:54:11","slug":"man-arrested-after-crash-on-gatwick-airport-main-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686710\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after crash on Gatwick Airport main road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The collision, which closed the A23 Airport Way near Junction 9A of the M23, occurred at around 1.35pm earlier today (July 11).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A 32-year-old man has since been arrested\u00a0on suspicion of driving while unfit through drink and on suspicion of assault on an emergency worker.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He remains in custody at this time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for Sussex Police said: &#8220;Police responded to a report of a single-vehicle collision in Airport Way near Junction 9A of the M23 westbound at about 1.35pm on Saturday, July 11.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;A vehicle had crashed into a lamppost, causing damage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Officers arrested a 32-year-old man on suspicion of driving while unfit through drink and on suspicion of assault on an emergency worker.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He remains in custody at this time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Temporary road closures were in place while the area was made safe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The scene has been handed to National Highways.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You can follow live updates on the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/26272436.live-updates-crash-shuts-a23-airport-way-gatwick\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collision, which closed the A23 Airport Way near Junction 9A of the M23, occurred at around 1.35pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686710","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=686710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}