{"id":747746,"date":"2026-08-24T02:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:22:12","slug":"wrong-way-crash-on-uk-highway-kills-7-people-including-2-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747746\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way crash on UK highway kills 7 people, including 2 police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tA horrific crash in the United Kingdom has claimed the lives of seven people. Five men were driving in the wrong direction on a highway Saturday and crashed head-on with a police car carrying two officers. All occupants of both vehicles were killed. It happened just a week after a similar deadly incident in Ireland. As Redmond Shannon reports, questions are being raised about the role of social media in the tragedies.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A horrific crash in the United Kingdom has claimed the lives of seven people. Five men were driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,718,50,247064,51,247065,247066,56,54,247067,55],"class_list":["post-747746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-international","tag-news","tag-short-clip","tag-top-news","tag-u-k-crash","tag-u-k-wrong-way-crash","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-deadly-crash","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747746","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=747746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}