{"id":573438,"date":"2026-05-08T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573438\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:10:10","slug":"young-father-who-died-in-m5-crash-is-remembered-as-a-gentle-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573438\/","title":{"rendered":"Young father who died in M5 crash is remembered as a &#8216;gentle giant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His little boy was his world, and the bond they shared was truly special,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Life is going to be incredibly hard without him, the void he leaves behind is immeasurable, but we take comfort in the many hearts he touched and the kindness he spread through and through. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will be deeply missed by his entire family and his many friends, but his legacy of love and strength will live on in his son forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire Police said officers were continuing their enquiries and asked anyone who saw the crash to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said the occupants of the Volkswagen Transporter were not seriously injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;His little boy was his world, and the bond they shared was truly special,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Life is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573438","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\/573438","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=573438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}