{"id":745049,"date":"2026-08-21T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745049\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:16:08","slug":"m6-fire-live-with-long-delays-as-motorway-closed-after-lorry-bursts-into-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745049\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 fire LIVE with long delays as motorway closed after lorry bursts into flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Traffic is no longer being turned around on the M6, National Highways have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In an update following the earlier announcement that traffic was &#8216;in the process of being turned around&#8217;, National Highways said: &#8220;Update 3: M6 J18 (Middlewich) &amp; J19 (Knutsford)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Northbound remains closed due to a HGV fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;1 lane is in process of being reopened. Traffic will not be turned around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;@CheshireFire remain on scene. Delays; 30 mins on approach, 3 miles of congestion. Please plan ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic is no longer being turned around on the M6, National Highways have said. In an update following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,389,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m6","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745049","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=745049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}