{"id":708476,"date":"2026-07-24T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708476\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:56:09","slug":"m42-car-and-motorbike-crash-in-warwickshire-causes-long-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708476\/","title":{"rendered":"M42 car and motorbike crash in Warwickshire causes long delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were long delays on the M42 after a crash involving a motorbike and car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The motorway was closed southbound following the incident between junction nine for Curdworth, Warwickshire, and junction 10 for Tamworth on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways, which reported the closure at 05:40 BST, said Warwickshire Police were carrying out investigations at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly after 07:00 BST, National Highways confirmed the vehicles had been recovered and the road had reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said there were residual delays of about 20 minutes and around two miles of congestion in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were long delays on the M42 after a crash involving a motorbike and car. The motorway was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708476","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\/708476","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=708476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}