{"id":357575,"date":"2026-01-07T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:25:08","slug":"a12-saxmundham-crash-victim-was-grandfather-who-loved-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357575\/","title":{"rendered":"A12 Saxmundham crash victim was grandfather who loved music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim&#8217;s family said he had been raised in Friston and later became a self-employed builder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Away from work, he enjoyed motorsports, horse racing and football, and his family said he spent &#8220;many happy hours cruising the Suffolk roads on his beloved Triumph Bonneville&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;He also loved music. He was proud to have played rhythm guitar in the early years with local band The Wild Oats during the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He rekindled his interest in playing guitar in the 90s and made many friends who played in bands thereafter. He performed with some local acts whilst in his 70s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He could be funny and warm and loved a good chat. He will be greatly missed by the many who knew him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim&#8217;s family said he had been raised in Friston and later became a self-employed builder. Away from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-357575","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\/357575","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=357575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}