{"id":17266,"date":"2020-01-14T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=17266"},"modified":"2020-01-14T15:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:08:39","slug":"quick-update-boy-dies-in-collision-on-a466","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/quick-update-boy-dies-in-collision-on-a466\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Update: Boy Dies In Collision On A466"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A boy has died after being hit by a bus on a the A466 in south Wales.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/11B02\/production\/_110505427_mon.jpg\" alt=\"Hereford Road\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The A466 in question is the main road between Monmouth and Hereford.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ambulances were called to the scene yesterday at around 3:50 after reports of a road accident involving a bus and a young boy. A spokeswoman from West Midlands Ambulance Service said: &#8220;the boy was a pedestrian and was hit by a bus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;Sadly, nothing could be done to save him and he was confirmed dead on scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local police have since closed the road between Withy Lane and Buckholt following the tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boy has died after being hit by a bus on a the A466 in south Wales. Ambulances were called to the scene yesterday at around 3:50 after reports of a road accident involving a bus and a young boy. A spokeswoman from West Midlands Ambulance Service said: &#8220;the boy was a pedestrian and was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":17274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,1746,43],"class_list":["post-17266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-news","tag-road-news","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17275,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions\/17275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}