{"id":668627,"date":"2026-07-01T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668627\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:28:11","slug":"police-statement-after-man-dies-as-van-falls-off-cliff-in-peacehaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668627\/","title":{"rendered":"Police statement after man dies as van falls off cliff in Peacehaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Police were called to a report of a van going over the cliff edge at Peacehaven at about 4.30pm this afternoon (July 1).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The driver, a man, was subsequently found dead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokeswoman for Sussex Police said: &#8220;Police received a report of a van going over the cliff edge at Peacehaven at about 4.30pm on Wednesday, July.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The van was located and the driver, a man who is yet to be formally identified, was sadly found deceased.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Police are investigating the full circumstances of this tragic incident and the coroner\u2019s officer has been informed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to a report of a van going over the cliff edge at Peacehaven at about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668627","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\/668627","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=668627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}