{"id":689218,"date":"2026-07-13T12:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689218\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:21:23","slug":"fly-tippers-dump-95-100-drums-of-oil-on-coventry-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689218\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly-tippers dump 95-100 drums of oil on Coventry lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gritter lorries have been sent to assist after a road become unsafe to drive on due to an estimated 95-100 drums of oil being fly-tipped on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff were contacted on Wednesday about the incident on Hollyfast Lane on the outskirts of the city, Coventry City Council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our crews quickly attended the site and shut it off before anyone could have an accident,&#8221; the authority said. &#8220;Since then, they&#8217;ve been working tirelessly to clean the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s absolutely appalling,&#8221; said Lisa Boyle, one of the councillors who represents the Bablake ward in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said: &#8220;We&#8217;d like to say thank you to the residents who made us aware of this issue so we could act quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A road closure remains in place and we ask people to avoid the area if possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gritter lorries have been sent to assist after a road become unsafe to drive on due to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689218","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=689218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}