{"id":72113,"date":"2024-01-31T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/?p=72113"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:26:34","slug":"a31-closed-during-wednesday-morning-rush-hour-following-fuel-spillage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/a31-closed-during-wednesday-morning-rush-hour-following-fuel-spillage\/","title":{"rendered":"A31 closed during Wednesday morning rush-hour following fuel spillage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel spillage on the A31 at Ringwood caused long delays on the surrounding roads on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded to the incident, which included a car falling off a trailer, just before 8am near the Ashley Heath interchange and the road was closed for around two hours.<\/p>\n<p>There was major disruption to local public transport, as the A338 Spur Road was congested north bound, along with the A31 eastbound, the B3081 Verwood Road and A338 Salisbury Road, both southbound.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic through Ringwood was also at a standstill as motorists diverted via the Avon Causeway and Christchurch Road.<\/p>\n<p>The spillage happened shortly after another incident at the Blackwater junction on the A338, in which two people were arrested on suspicion of driving offences and subsequently taken to hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Ringwood Fire<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone-900x1200.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone-1170x1560.jpeg 1170w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31c-bournemouthone-585x780.jpeg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone-1170x878.jpeg 1170w, https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/a31b-bournemouthone-585x439.jpeg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 31\/01\/24 -07:45- 45P7 mobilised to an RTC on the A31 Eastbound at Ringwood. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VtrTeYcIXO\">pic.twitter.com\/VtrTeYcIXO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ringwood Fire Station (@RingwoodFire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RingwoodFire\/status\/1752622132142473468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ringwood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ringwood<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AshleyHealth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AshleyHealth<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StLeonards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StLeonards<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/A338?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#A338<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/A31?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#A31<\/a>\/B3081 &#8211; severe delays due to the RTC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/64mTUUm1SZ\">pic.twitter.com\/64mTUUm1SZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hampshire County Council Traffic &amp; Travel (@hantstraffic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hantstraffic\/status\/1752621240899059785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A31 \/ A338 &#8212;  X3, X6, 38, Ringo&#39;s  **A31 now closed at Poulner &#8211; huge widespread disruption to all services in Ringwood and surrounding areas** ^JB<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; morebus (@Morebusco) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morebusco\/status\/1752618762107257140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel spillage on the A31 at Ringwood caused long delays on the surrounding roads this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded to the incident near the Ashley Heath interchange and the road was closed for around two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic through Ringwood was also at a standstill as motorists from the Bournemouth area diverted via the Avon Causeway and Christchurch Road. <\/p>\n<p>The spillage happened shortly after another incident at the Blackwater junction on the A338, in which two people were arrested on suspicion of driving offences and subsequently taken to hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":72115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,63],"tags":[266,267],"class_list":["post-72113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ringwood","tag-morebusco","tag-ringwoodfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72124,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72113\/revisions\/72124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}