{"id":534475,"date":"2026-04-16T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:34:11","slug":"man-walking-on-a1m-hard-shoulder-killed-in-hgv-crash-at-darrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534475\/","title":{"rendered":"Man walking on A1(M) hard shoulder killed in HGV crash at Darrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who was walking on the A1(M) has been killed in a crash involving an HGV, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to the northbound carriageway of the motorway at Darrington just after 07:30 BST, to reports of a man walking along the hard shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Yorkshire Police said the man had been involved in another crash at about 07:15 BST on Valley Road, which involved a white Renault Captur and a white Toyota Proace City van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The van driver, who is understood to be a 60-year-old from Leeds, then left the scene on foot and was struck by the HGV just before the Ferrybridge junction of the A1(M).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was walking on the A1(M) has been killed in a crash involving an HGV, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534475","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\/534475","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=534475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}