{"id":654114,"date":"2026-06-23T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:23:10","slug":"major-incident-declared-in-kidwelly-after-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654114\/","title":{"rendered":"Major incident declared in Kidwelly after bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hwyel Dda health board said its teams were responding to the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our emergency departments are busy, and waiting times are likely to be longer as we treat individuals with the greatest need first,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local vicar Father Jim Flanagan said he was re-routed due to the road closures and saw the roof of a bus over a hedge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added there were multiple ambulances there, with lights flashing, and an air ambulance had landed in a field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of his churches, St Mary&#8217;s in Kidwelly, has been opened should people wish to use it, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hwyel Dda health board said its teams were responding to the incident. &#8220;Our emergency departments are busy, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654114","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\/654114","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=654114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}