{"id":30014,"date":"2019-08-27T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30014"},"modified":"2019-08-27T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:46:02","slug":"driver-flees-after-crashing-into-3-parked-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/27\/driver-flees-after-crashing-into-3-parked-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver flees after crashing into 3 parked cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver fled the scene of a crash after hitting three parked cars and a lamppost in Oldbury.<\/p>\n<p>The crash took place shortly before midnight on Sunday on Hadley Street.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene \u2013 but discovered the driver of the VW Polo was not there.<\/p>\n<p>Residents reported that the crash left several cars damaged in the street.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Fire Service said: &#8220;We were called by police to reports of a road traffic collision in Hadley Street at around 12.01am on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One car had hit three cars and a lamppost. The driver of the car had left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made the scene safe and left it with the police and council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesman added: &#8220;Police were called to reports of a VW Polo hitting stationary vehicles and a lamppost in Hadley Street, at just before midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers attended and the found the car abandoned.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver fled the scene of a crash after hitting three parked cars and a lamppost in Oldbury. The crash took place shortly before midnight on Sunday on Hadley Street. Emergency services were called to the scene \u2013 but discovered the driver of the VW Polo was not there. Residents reported that the crash left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}