{"id":698196,"date":"2026-07-18T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698196\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:41:08","slug":"teen-stuck-on-m25-for-eight-hours-on-first-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698196\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen stuck on M25 for eight hours on first drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A teenager who was driving for the first time after passing her test ended up stuck on the M25 for eight hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A crash near Lakeside Shopping Centre in Grays, Essex, at 05:30 BST on Thursday caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn9nl07j3zro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">huge delays<\/a>, with the road not reopening until 20:40 due to multiple complications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said about a quarter of a mile (400m) of road needed resurfacing after an oil spill, and cooling was slowed down by the hot weather. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Beatrix, a 20-minute journey with her relative ended up being a long wait in gridlock, but despite the pressure she said her driving instructor would have been impressed with her performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 17-year-old, from Romford, east London, said: &#8220;It was me and my cousin in the car and both of our phones died. So, we didn&#8217;t really know how to get back and we were following road signs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never driven on the M25&#8230; so, that was very scary.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager who was driving for the first time after passing her test ended up stuck on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698196","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\/698196","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=698196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}