{"id":1864,"date":"2025-04-09T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:43:43","slug":"huge-crash-involving-at-least-three-police-cars-closes-a1-in-both-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/huge-crash-involving-at-least-three-police-cars-closes-a1-in-both-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge crash involving at least three police cars closes A1 in both directions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The A1 crash this morning is thought to have involved at least two cars and three police vehicles (Picture: North News & Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A major road has closed in the North East after a crash involving several police cars and at least two other vehicles. <\/p>\n

The A1 closed last night after a serious crash thought to involve at least three police cars. <\/p>\n

The collision happened in the early hours of the morning between junctions J73 (Swalwell) and J75 (Denton) in\u00a0Newcastle<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Traffic has been blocked off since about 2am after the incident and the road is expected to remain closed for several hours, National Highways<\/a> warned. <\/p>\n

Footage shows a badly smashed dark grey vehicle near the central reservation with debris and pieces of police cars scattered on the carriageway. <\/p>\n

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The A1 western bypass in Newcastle remains closed after the serious crash (Picture: North News & Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One police car can be seen crashed further ahead with two others behind acar that appears to be a BMW. <\/p>\n

National Highways said the A1 is closed \u2018following a very serious collision earlier this morning and full police investigation.\u2019<\/p>\n

Drivers face 45-minute delays and four miles of congestion northbound and one mile of congestion southbound at rush hour. <\/p>\n

Traffic alerts show congestion stretching back towards Newcastle International Airport and the A69. <\/p>\n

We approached Northumbria Police for a comment. <\/p>\n

Got a story? Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong> Or you can submit your videos and pictures here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The A1 crash this morning is thought to have involved at least two cars and three police vehicles (Picture: North News & Pictures) A major road has closed in the North East after a crash involving several police cars and at least two other vehicles. The A1 closed last night after a serious crash thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}