{"id":205929,"date":"2026-05-15T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205929"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:38:14","slug":"friday-afternoon-crash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/15\/friday-afternoon-crash-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon crash&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-15-2026-accident.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205930\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A Friday afternoon\u00a0chain reaction crash sent one person to OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital. It happened just before 2:30 p.m. on U.S. 127 and Union-Pleasant\u00a0Rd.\u00a0Two of the vehicles had to be removed from the scene by tow trucks. The third vehicle (not pictured) sustained very minor damage. The injured person was taken to the hospital by Van Wert EMS. The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Patrol investigated the accident. <em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Friday afternoon\u00a0chain reaction crash sent one person to OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital. It happened just before 2:30 p.m. on U.S. 127 and Union-Pleasant\u00a0Rd.\u00a0Two of the vehicles had to be removed from the scene by tow trucks. The third vehicle (not pictured) sustained very minor damage. The injured person was taken to the hospital by [&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-205929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 00:07:15","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\/205929","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=205929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205931,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205929\/revisions\/205931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}