{"id":803265,"date":"2026-10-15T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803265\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:04:12","slug":"stretch-of-m60-closed-during-police-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803265\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretch of M60 closed during police incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A section of the M60 was closed after a police incident lead to part of the route being shut in both directions, causing long rush-hour delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers were warned to expect delays of more than 30 minutes after a stretch of the motorway was closed between Junction 17 at Prestwich and Junction 18 at Simister Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police were at the scene alongside North West Ambulance Service and fire crews, National Highways said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement released after 07:45 BST, the force said it had been responding to concerns for a woman&#8217;s welfare but she was safe and the road was reopened shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three miles (4.8km) of congestion had been reported on the approach to the closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of the M60 was closed after a police incident lead to part of the route being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803265","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\/803265","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=803265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}