{"id":483913,"date":"2026-03-19T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483913\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:25:08","slug":"three-men-killed-in-illingworth-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483913\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men killed in Illingworth crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Resident Julie Farmer, who lives on the street behind where the crash took place, said the bang sounded &#8220;like a Russian bomb&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the BBC: &#8220;It was just before 19:00 GMT and I heard this massive bang, it made me feel sick &#8211; I knew it must have been an accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I immediately thought of my own children and rang them to check if it wasn&#8217;t them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Farmer went to see what had happened, she described seeing &#8220;at least five ambulances&#8221;, a police helicopter and the fire brigade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farmer also said it is not the first time there has been a bad accident on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Something needs to be done, speed bumps or something as people drive down this road way too fast &#8211; maybe because it goes from 50mph to 30mph quite quickly,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just awful, so sad, when I went home I cried.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resident Julie Farmer, who lives on the street behind where the crash took place, said the bang sounded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483913","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=483913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}