{"id":450760,"date":"2026-02-28T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450760\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:07:07","slug":"man-accidentally-drives-mobility-scooter-on-to-m11-near-harlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450760\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accidentally drives mobility scooter on to M11 near Harlow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police officers rescued a man aged in his 70s who was driving a mobility scooter after he accidentally turned on to a motorway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Police was called to the M11 near Harlow after he had been seen driving along the hard shoulder at about 12:35 GMT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They briefly closed a single lane while they checked on the man, put him into a car and took him and his scooter home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Not a typical stop for our roads policing unit, but a great reminder to only use suitable vehicles on our major roads,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers rescued a man aged in his 70s who was driving a mobility scooter after he accidentally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-450760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450760","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=450760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}