{"id":5309,"date":"2011-03-10T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2011-03-10T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:07:55","slug":"mind-that-puddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5309","title":{"rendered":"Mind That Puddle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-shropshire-12674826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this in yesterday&#8217;s press<\/a>, but the BBC website also covers it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17619 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pickup_flood.jpg\" alt=\"Pick-up truck falls into flooded hole\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 520px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 520\/520;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pick-up truck went through a puddle of water\u00a0&#8211; and the &#8220;puddle&#8221; turned out to be a 10 foot-deep hole created by a burst water main washing soil out from under the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>On first hearing, it sounds amusing &#8211; but one of the occupants was taken to hospital with back and leg injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said only the size of the vehicle prevented it from being submerged completely (more of the road gave way once they&#8217;d entered the hole, so it sounds like it might not even have been there until they drove on to the tarmac which was suspended over nothing). If it had been a smaller car the whole incident could have been tragic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this in yesterday&#8217;s press, but the BBC website also covers it. A pick-up truck went through a puddle of water\u00a0&#8211; and the &#8220;puddle&#8221; turned out to be a 10 foot-deep hole created by a burst water main washing soil out from under the tarmac. On first hearing, it sounds amusing &#8211; but one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}