{"id":598289,"date":"2026-05-22T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598289\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:37:13","slug":"two-children-amongst-four-critically-hurt-in-gisburn-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598289\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children amongst four critically hurt in Gisburn crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four people &#8211; including two five-year-olds &#8211; have been taken to hospital with critical injuries following a &#8220;horrendous collision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crash happened on the A59 at Gisburn, close to the junction with Strawberry Fields, between a Skoda Karoq and a Volkswagen Golf R, at about 15:55 BST on Thursday, Lancashire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver of the Skoda, a woman in her 60s, and two passengers \u2013 a boy and a girl \u2013 all suffered severe injuries and were taken to hospital where they are in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver of the VW Golf, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people &#8211; including two five-year-olds &#8211; have been taken to hospital with critical injuries following a &#8220;horrendous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598289","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\/598289","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=598289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}