{"id":41522,"date":"2024-11-29T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=41522"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:10:56","slug":"m49-remains-closed-until-late-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2024\/11\/29\/m49-remains-closed-until-late-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"M49 remains closed until late afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The M49 is expected to remain closed until at least 3pm after a four-vehicle incident yesterday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The northbound direction of the motorway has been closed since 5:50pm yesterday after the incident occured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhighways.co.uk\/travel-updates\/travel-alerts\/m49-gloucestershire-northbound-emergency-roadworks-operation-carriageway-closed-between-m5-and-the-m4\/\">National Highways<\/a> have stated that the carriageway needs significant repairs and resurfacing before it can be reopened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2757 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M49?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#M49<\/a> northbound at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bristol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bristol<\/a> likely to be closed until late afternoon for emergency repairs after a collision yesterday evening.<br><br>\ud83d\ude97 Travelling north on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#M5<\/a> ? Continue past J18 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M49?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#M49<\/a> &amp; use J16 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#M4<\/a> &amp; onward travel to Wales.<br><br>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYlK0X2xI0\">https:\/\/t.co\/VYlK0X2xI0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zKl5jvq4IR\">pic.twitter.com\/zKl5jvq4IR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; National Highways: South-West (@HighwaysSWEST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HighwaysSWEST\/status\/1862460003459727612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The road surface has been impacted by fuel spillages, which has added to the clean-up time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only one person is believed to have been taken to hospital, with injuries that are not believed to be life-changing or life-threatening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Motorists are still being advised to avoid the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M49 is expected to remain closed until at least 3pm after a four-vehicle incident yesterday evening. The northbound direction of the motorway has been closed since 5:50pm yesterday after the incident occured. National Highways have stated that the carriageway needs significant repairs and resurfacing before it can be reopened. \u2757 #M49 northbound at #Bristol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":41576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41613,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522\/revisions\/41613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}