{"id":815369,"date":"2026-10-27T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815369\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:48:13","slug":"three-injured-in-m6-van-and-car-crash-and-motorway-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815369\/","title":{"rendered":"Three injured in M6 van and car crash and motorway closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three people have been injured in a crash involving a van and a car, which has closed part of a motorway in both directions, causing severe delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheshire Police said the collision happened at about 03:30 GMT on the northbound M6 at junction 20 near Warrington, where it meets the M56 at Lymm Interchange. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Traffic England said vehicles had been diverted off the M6 via the exit and entry slip roads. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It later reported delays of 90 minutes, with tailbacks of about eight miles (13km).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Traffic monitoring service Inrix said southbound traffic had built up to before junction 22 for Newton-le-Willows, while those heading northbound could expect congestion from junction 19 for Knutsford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also said traffic was &#8220;very slow&#8221; on the M62 heading towards Manchester due to motorists trying to find alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have not given an update on the condition of the three injured people, who were taken to hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been injured in a crash involving a van and a car, which has closed part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-815369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815369","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=815369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}