{"id":696210,"date":"2026-07-17T07:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696210\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:08:14","slug":"two-women-in-hospital-as-m8-closed-after-crash-near-paisley-with-barriers-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696210\/","title":{"rendered":"Two women in hospital as M8 closed after crash near Paisley with &#8216;barriers damaged&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women have been taken to hospital as the M8 remains closed following a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services say the motorway is closed westbound at junction 27 near the White Cart Viaduct in Paisley after a one-car crash around 8.40pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Two women have been taken to hospital for treatment. Their condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Renfrew Road is also closed between Abbotsinch Retail Park roundabout and Arkleston Road roundabout due to associated damage to the barriers.<\/p>\n<p>A Police statement read: \u201cEmergency services are in attendance and enquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad users are advised to avoid the area and use an alternative route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women have been taken to hospital as the M8 remains closed following a crash. Emergency services say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696210","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\/696210","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=696210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}