{"id":539675,"date":"2026-04-19T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:36:11","slug":"police-officer-in-hospital-after-being-hit-by-car-on-m8-while-attending-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539675\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer in hospital after being hit by car on M8 while attending breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer is in hospital after being hit by a car while attending a breakdown on the M8.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed an officer and a male driver of a Ford Kuga sustained injuries in the crash on the slip road of junction 27 of the M8 westbound around 7.40pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was struck by a police car, which had been stationary, after the Kuga collided with it.<\/p>\n<p>He had been dealing with a broken-down vehicle at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Both the officer and the Kuga driver were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police say enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 7.40pm on Saturday, April 18, 2026, a Ford Kuga collided with a stationary police vehicle on the slip road of J.27 of the M8 westbound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police car struck a male officer who was dealing with a broken-down vehicle at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officer and the male driver of the Ford Kuga, who also sustained injuries in the crash, were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer is in hospital after being hit by a car while attending a breakdown on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198383,"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-539675","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\/539675","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=539675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}