{"id":207716,"date":"2026-07-09T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207716"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:33:16","slug":"motorcycle-vs-semi-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/09\/motorcycle-vs-semi-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle vs. semi-truck&#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\/07\/July-9-2026-crash-I.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207717\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A motorcyclist was flown for treatment after colliding with a semi-truck early Thursday afternoon. Van Wert County deputies, along with firefighters from Ohio City and Van Wert were dispatched to the intersection of Ohio 118 and Ohio 81 shortly at approximately 12:45 p.m. No other information is available yet. <em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/July-9-2026-crash-II.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207718\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/July-9-2026-III.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207719\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist was flown for treatment after colliding with a semi-truck early Thursday afternoon. Van Wert County deputies, along with firefighters from Ohio City and Van Wert were dispatched to the intersection of Ohio 118 and Ohio 81 shortly at approximately 12:45 p.m. No other information is available yet. Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/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-207716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 13:18:14","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\/207716","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=207716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207720,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207716\/revisions\/207720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}