{"id":331,"date":"2019-02-20T18:17:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bournemouthtoday.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-02-20T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:17:16","slug":"car-and-ambulance-collide-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/car-and-ambulance-collide-in-christchurch\/","title":{"rendered":"Car and Ambulance collide in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers are appealing for witnesses following a collision between a car and an ambulance in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at around 2.35pm today, Wednesday 20 February 2019, along Fairmile Road at the junction of Clarendon Road. The car involved was a Volkswagen Golf.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Golf sustained a minor injury and was treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pictures from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steve_Hogan_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Steve_Hogan_<\/a> of the incident in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Christchurch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Christchurch<\/a> involving an ambulance and a car. <br \/>Roads are closed which is causing severe congestion in the town. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOZGFQY3Cf\">pic.twitter.com\/BOZGFQY3Cf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Radio Solent (@BBCRadioSolent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadioSolent\/status\/1098269457112354821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two paramedics from the ambulance were taken to Poole hospital as a precaution. It is understood the ambulance was responding to an emergency call at the time of the collision, however no patients were on board.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the incident, an unmarked police car had illuminated its lights and requested for the Golf to stop.<\/p>\n<p>A road closure was put in place to allow emergency services to deal with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year-old man from Dorchester was arrested on suspicion of failing to stop when requested by police, driving without insurance, dangerous driving, drug driving and driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence. He is\u00a0assisting officers with enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Police Inspector Joe Pardey, of the traffic unit, said: &#8220;An investigation into the circumstances of the collision is now underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident or the manner of driving of either vehicle prior to the collision to please contact Dorset Police.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers are appealing for witnesses following a collision between a car and an ambulance in Christchurch. The incident happened at around 2.35pm today, Wednesday 20 February 2019, along Fairmile Road&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christchurch","category-poole","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}