{"id":362785,"date":"2026-01-10T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362785\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:53:06","slug":"gritter-lorry-overturns-on-black-ice-in-devon-amid-ice-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362785\/","title":{"rendered":"Gritter lorry overturns on black ice in Devon amid ice warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services have warned of &#8220;challenging conditions&#8221; and black ice after the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for ice across parts of Devon and Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said motorists should be mindful of risk of black ice, which was not always visible, as a result of low temperatures combined with recent rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service said it was sent to a report of a gritter lorry that overturned on Dousland Road in Princetown, Devon, at 07:10 on Saturday, after skidding on black ice. The driver had to be released from the vehicle, but was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.metoffice.gov.uk\/warnings-and-advice\/uk-warnings#?date=2026-01-10&amp;id=4822140a-178e-4b0d-9879-a1a4966c2530\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warning for ice, external<\/a> was issued from 12:00 GMT on Friday and is due to end at midday on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services have warned of &#8220;challenging conditions&#8221; and black ice after the Met Office issued a yellow weather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-362785","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\/362785","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=362785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}