{"id":346899,"date":"2026-01-01T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:51:08","slug":"pc-punched-in-throat-by-man-fleeing-dudley-crash-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346899\/","title":{"rendered":"PC punched in throat by man fleeing Dudley crash scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested after a policewoman was punched in the throat while she attended a crash scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police was called to Robert Street in Lower Gornal, Dudley, just before 05:30 GMT on Thursday to reports that a Ford Ranger had crashed into a wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said a man, talking some distance away from the scene, hit out at the officer as she tried to stop him from getting into a Range Rover, driven by a second person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vehicle made off but two suspects were found in the Swindon area of Staffordshire, police said. A 46-year-old man was detained on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker, and drink-driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a policewoman was punched in the throat while she attended a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-346899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346899","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=346899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}