{"id":23708,"date":"2025-02-22T23:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/m4-and-m48-closed-after-body-found-in-carriageway\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T23:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:30:55","slug":"m4-and-m48-closed-after-body-found-in-carriageway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/m4-and-m48-closed-after-body-found-in-carriageway\/","title":{"rendered":"M4 and M48 closed after body found in carriageway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The M4 is closed in both directions near Bristol after a body was found on the carriageway.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police were called to reports of something in the road between junction 20 (Almondsbury interchange) and junction 22 (Awkley) on Saturday at 18:40 GMT.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Avon and Somerset Police said human remains had been found and they were investigating how they had come to be on the motorway.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The M4 is likely to remain closed until the early hours of Sunday. The M48 is also closed between junction 1 and the M4.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Officers are trying to identify the person and notify their next of kin.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">National Highways said diversions were in place.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Anyone travelling along the motorway at the time of the incident, with information or dash cam footage is asked to contact police.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckgdzrlll3xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M4 is closed in both directions near Bristol after a body was found on the carriageway. Police were called to reports of something in the road between junction 20 (Almondsbury interchange) and junction 22 (Awkley) on Saturday at 18:40 GMT. Avon and Somerset Police said human remains had been found and they were investigating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[942,8763,639,8762],"class_list":["post-23708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-body","tag-carriageway","tag-closed","tag-m48"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23710,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708\/revisions\/23710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}