{"id":638561,"date":"2026-06-14T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:20:09","slug":"rock-bands-truck-crashes-into-house-on-way-to-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638561\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rock band&#8217;s truck&#8217; crashes into house on way to Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver of a lorry believed to be carrying equipment for one of the bands performing at Download was taken to hospital after crashing into a house while en route to the festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of rock fans are at the UK&#8217;s biggest festival for 2026 at Donington Park in Leicestershire this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire Police said officers were called to reports of a lorry hitting several parked cars and a house on Walton Hill in Isley Walton &#8211; a short distance from the festival site &#8211; at about 23:20 BST on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No-one inside the property was injured, the force said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a lorry believed to be carrying equipment for one of the bands performing at Download&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638561","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=638561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}