{"id":190659,"date":"2025-03-12T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190659"},"modified":"2025-03-12T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:46:17","slug":"rockford-area-crash-claims-willshire-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/12\/rockford-area-crash-claims-willshire-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockford-area crash claims Willshire man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ROCKFORD &#8212; A Willshire man injured in a tractor accident Tuesday afternoon has succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Caffee, 83, was operating the tractor with a front end loader and a utility trailer in the 10000 block of Ohio 49 east of Rockford, when the tractor overturned, went down an embankment and into a river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rockford Fire Department, along with the Chattanooga Fire Department and the Mercer County Sheriff\u2019s Office were dispatched to the scene. The freed Caffee and he was airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff ROCKFORD &#8212; A Willshire man injured in a tractor accident Tuesday afternoon has succumbed to his injuries. Larry Caffee, 83, was operating the tractor with a front end loader and a utility trailer in the 10000 block of Ohio 49 east of Rockford, when the tractor overturned, went down an embankment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:08:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190660,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190659\/revisions\/190660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}