{"id":364732,"date":"2026-01-11T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364732\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:50:06","slug":"death-of-man-84-in-washington-car-crash-sparks-sussex-police-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364732\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of man, 84, in Washington car crash sparks Sussex Police appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are appealing for information after an 84-year-old man was killed in a car crash in West Sussex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to reports of a collision between a BMW and a Volkswagen on the southbound carriageway of the A24, half a mile from the Washington roundabout, just before 11:00 GMT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver of the BMW, an 84-year-old man from Worthing, died at the scene while the passenger, a woman aged 82, was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The Volkswagen driver, a 54-year-old woman, was taken to hospital and has been discharged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone who saw the crash or has footage of it is asked to contact Sussex Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information after an 84-year-old man was killed in a car crash in West Sussex.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-364732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364732","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=364732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}