{"id":7233,"date":"2024-08-11T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/main-road-in-sussex-closed-for-hours-after-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T10:39:41","slug":"main-road-in-sussex-closed-for-hours-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/main-road-in-sussex-closed-for-hours-after-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Main road in Sussex closed for hours after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A major road leading to the Sussex coast has been closed for several hours following a serious collision.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The crash happened on the A23, near Crawley, at about 23:00 BST on Saturday, according to National Highways South East.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Both carriageways, between the M23 junction 11 at Crawley and the A272 at Bolney, were shut for several hours.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On Sunday, the northbound carriageway had reopened but the southbound carriageway remained closed, with a diversion in place.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A spokesperson for West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service urged drivers to avoid the area &#8220;for the time being&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Fire crews from Burgess Hill, Crawley and Horsham have been in attendance.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Sussex Police has been approached for comment.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cewlxjjx2p8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major road leading to the Sussex coast has been closed for several hours following a serious collision. The crash happened on the A23, near Crawley, at about 23:00 BST on Saturday, according to National Highways South East. Both carriageways, between the M23 junction 11 at Crawley and the A272 at Bolney, were shut for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[639,327,2713,4181,326,4182],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-hours","tag-main","tag-road","tag-sussex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233","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=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}