{"id":649351,"date":"2026-06-20T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649351\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:15:14","slug":"attempted-murder-arrests-after-man-hit-by-car-in-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649351\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted murder arrests after man hit by car in Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a 20-year-old man was hit by a car, trapping him against a wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the collision involved a white VW Polo outside the Co-Op in Fircroft Road, Ipswich, just before 22:00 BST on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim was taken to hospital with life-changing open leg fractures, and remained in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two 20-year-old men detained for questioning had reportedly been in an altercation with him before the incident, police added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver and passenger abandoned the car after the crash and fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers are keen to hear from anyone with relevant CCTV or dashcam footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Suffolk? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a 20-year-old man was hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649351","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\/649351","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=649351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}