{"id":375615,"date":"2025-12-29T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:27:10","slug":"anthony-joshua-car-crash-live-officials-reveal-suspected-cause-of-smash-which-killed-two-men-and-left-two-time-heavyweight-champion-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375615\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua car crash LIVE: Officials reveal suspected cause of smash which killed two men and left two-time heavyweight champion injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key information we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">If you are just joining us, here is a recap of the major news we know around the car crash which has left Anthony Joshua injured and has seen two people killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">The British boxing star, 36, was &#8216;rescued alive and sustained minor injuries&#8217; and is understood to be receiving treatment in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">The crash, along a busy stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Makun, happened at around 11am local time (10am GMT) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Joshua was one of five men involved in the crash when the Lexus Jeep he was travelling in the back of ploughed into a stationary truck near a petrol\u00a0station. His security entourage was following in a separate car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Authorities said the black Lexus is believed to have been travelling &#8216;beyond the legally prescribed speed limit&#8217; and lost control while making &#8216;an overtaking manoeuvre&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767022175816_wide_galleryImage_Anthony_Joshua_hurt_in_ca.JPG\" alt=\"Anthony Joshua hurt in car crash in Nigeria that killed two others\" height=\"626\" width=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The key information we know If you are just joining us, here is a recap of the major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[5276,703,49,48,2093,11124,457,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-375615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-dailymail","13":"tag-live-blog","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}