{"id":216368,"date":"2025-12-29T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216368\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:54:07","slug":"anthony-joshua-injured-in-nigeria-car-crash-with-two-others-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216368\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua injured in Nigeria car crash, with two others dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua&#8217;s vehicle collided with stationary truck &#8211; local mediapublished at 13:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d15459a2-588f-4b34-a770-4e770ec33dbb.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Mayeni Jones<br \/>Africa correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As we&#8217;ve been reporting, authorities in Nigeria say Anthony Joshua has been involved in a car accident in which two other people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pictures of the heavyweight boxer sitting topless at the back of a car, surrounded by what appears to be broken glass, have been posted online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to local media, Joshua was in the back of a vehicle when it collided with a stationary truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The accident reportedly took place on the busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In social media videos from the site of the accident, the 36-year-old can be seen grimacing as he attempts to exit the car wreckage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua&#8217;s vehicle collided with stationary truck &#8211; local mediapublished at 13:34 GMT 13:34 GMT Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondent As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-216368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}