{"id":267982,"date":"2025-11-17T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267982\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:03:09","slug":"queens-road-wimbledon-explosion-man-rushed-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267982\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Road Wimbledon explosion: Man rushed to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The London Ambulance Service was called at 10.06\u202fam today (November 17) after reports of an explosion on Queens Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast-response car, and an incident response officer were sent to the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Paramedics from the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) were also dispatched.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The man was treated at the scene for burns before being taken to hospital as a priority.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Queens Road remains closed in both directions between Princes Road and A219 The Broadway, and bus route 200 is currently on a detour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for London Ambulance Service said: \u201cWe were called at 10.06am on Monday 17 November to reports of an explosion on Queens Road, Wimbledon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe sent resources to the scene, including an ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe also dispatched paramedics from our hazardous area response team (HART).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe treated a man at the scene for burns and took him to hospital as a priority.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Ambulance Service was called at 10.06\u202fam today (November 17) after reports of an explosion on Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-267982","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267982","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=267982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}