{"id":771278,"date":"2026-09-15T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771278\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:02:12","slug":"long-delays-on-m61-between-chorley-and-horwich-after-multi-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771278\/","title":{"rendered":"Long delays on M61 between Chorley and Horwich after multi-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers are facing delays on part of the M61 after a crash involving multiple vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It happened at 06.09 BST and led to one lane on the southbound side of the motorway being blocked, National Highways said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Traffic is still heavy between junction eight at Chorley, Lancashire, and junction six for Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said there was around three miles of congestion between Limbrick and Grimeford Village, which is adding roughly 30 minutes onto journey times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers are facing delays on part of the M61 after a crash involving multiple vehicles. It happened at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771278","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\/771278","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=771278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}