{"id":347071,"date":"2026-01-01T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347071\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:07:07","slug":"bristol-incident-moped-riders-in-hospital-after-police-chase-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347071\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol incident: Moped riders in hospital after police chase crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A moped rider and passenger are in hospital after a crash during a police chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The collision occurred at the double mini-roundabout junction of Overndale Road and Frenchay Road in Downend, Bristol, at 12:43 GMT on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers had pursued the moped for about five minutes before the crash. It is not believed either person sustained life-threatening injuries in the collision, police added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stretch of Frenchay Road remains closed between Grange Drive and Overndale Road. Avon and Somerset Police has notified its professional standards department of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A moped rider and passenger are in hospital after a crash during a police chase. The collision occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-347071","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\/347071","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=347071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}