{"id":172259,"date":"2025-10-01T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172259\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:12:10","slug":"cannock-chase-rangers-deer-crash-speed-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172259\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannock Chase ranger&#8217;s deer crash speed warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors have been spotted feeding the deer from their cars, something Mr Barrett said put the animals in great danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThey lose all the inhibitions, they lose all the fear and they associate cars with food,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThey\u2019ll happily approach a car in search of a few tidbits, and that&#8217;s where we start getting deer-vehicle collisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staffordshire County Council echoed Mr Barrett\u2019s requests and advised that motorists be prepared to stop, avoid sudden swerving and be ready to dip their lights when meeting a deer in the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said full beam lights could cause the deer to freeze and make them difficult to avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors have been spotted feeding the deer from their cars, something Mr Barrett said put the animals in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-172259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}