{"id":209557,"date":"2026-08-31T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209557"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:55:26","slug":"car-hits-cruiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/31\/car-hits-cruiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hits cruiser&#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\/08\/8-31-2026-crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209558\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>No one was injured when a car and a Van County Sheriff\u2019s cruiser collided at the intersection of Franklin and Sycamore streets in Van Wert at approximately 5:45 p.m. Monday. The white car was northbound on Franklin St., failed to stop and hit the cruiser. On the scene was the Van Wert Police Department, Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and the Van Wert Fire Department. Hague Towing removed the white car from the scene. <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\/08\/8-31-2026-crash-II.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209559\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one was injured when a car and a Van County Sheriff\u2019s cruiser collided at the intersection of Franklin and Sycamore streets in Van Wert at approximately 5:45 p.m. Monday. The white car was northbound on Franklin St., failed to stop and hit the cruiser. On the scene was the Van Wert Police Department, Van [&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-209557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-08 00:41:53","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\/209557","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=209557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209560,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209557\/revisions\/209560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}