{"id":54320,"date":"2025-08-08T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54320\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:01:13","slug":"lps-charges-truck-driver-who-damaged-whoop-up-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54320\/","title":{"rendered":"LPS charges truck driver who damaged Whoop-Up Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e280dc75-0d57-4811-8354-aff0fba6ab94.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged after the Whoop-Up Drive underpass was damaged on August 6, 2025. (Photo: Darryl Watts)<\/p>\n<p>By David Opinko<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 7, 2025 | 2:06 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Charges have been laid after the underside of the Whoop-Up Drive bridge was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says that, around 9:40 a.m. on Wednesday, August 6, a semi-truck was carrying a piece of heavy equipment underneath the Whoop-Up Drive bridge on Botteril Bottom Road South when it got stuck.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the driver made a wrong turn into Indian Battle Park and proceeded under the Whoop-Up Bridge overpass.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in damage to the underpass that is currently being assessed by the City of Lethbridge and contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after the Whoop-Up Drive underpass was damaged on August 6, 2025. (Photo: Darryl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-54320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54320","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=54320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}