{"id":206156,"date":"2026-05-22T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206156"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:27:21","slug":"child-hit-by-car-in-van-wert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/22\/child-hit-by-car-in-van-wert\/","title":{"rendered":"Child hit by car in Van Wert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A child was taken by ambulance to OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital Thursday evening after being struck by a vehickle outside of Fricker\u2019s in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happened at approximately 7:15 p.m. According to radio traffic, the 11-year-old child suffered minor injuries, including scrapes. According to Lt. Rob Black of the Van Wert Police Department, an accident report is not yet complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A child was taken by ambulance to OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital Thursday evening after being struck by a vehickle outside of Fricker\u2019s in Van Wert. It happened at approximately 7:15 p.m. According to radio traffic, the 11-year-old child suffered minor injuries, including scrapes. According to Lt. Rob Black of the Van Wert [&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-206156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 06:20:32","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\/206156","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=206156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206157,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206156\/revisions\/206157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}