{"id":488044,"date":"2026-03-21T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:24:12","slug":"police-appeal-to-public-over-car-stuck-in-river-ure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488044\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal to public over car stuck in River Ure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Officers say it&#8217;s been there for months, they&#8217;ve known about it for months and they are not responsible for moving it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We&#8217;re always grateful for your vigilance, and the information you provide us,&#8221; a spokesman said. &#8220;However, in this particular instance, there&#8217;s no need to call us or tell us about it!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The car in the river off Sharow Lane, Sharow, Ripon, was first spotted by a member of the public on Christmas Eve.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Specialist water rescue units from Selby and Skipton and fire crews from Ripon and Harrogate carried out extensive searches in the river and on the bankside without finding anyone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/25723816.ripon-extensive-search-car-found-river-near-ripon\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">then confirmed separately that everyone in the car when it went into the river had got out safely<\/a> and passed the incident to the Environment Agency to arrange for the car to be got back onto dry land..\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The car has been in the river ever since &#8211; and people are still telling the police it is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers say it&#8217;s been there for months, they&#8217;ve known about it for months and they are not responsible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488044","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\/488044","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=488044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}