{"id":691402,"date":"2026-06-08T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691402\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:21:15","slug":"s-saunders-street-closed-in-raleigh-after-car-crashes-into-utility-pole-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691402\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Saunders Street closed in Raleigh after car crashes into utility pole :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash closed a portion of South Saunders Street in Raleigh early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the car hit a utility pole at the South Dawson Street intersection before crossing a median and rolling over.<\/p>\n<p>The WRAL Breaking News Tracker was on the scene as crews responded to the crash.\u00a0A traffic light and utility pole could be seen knocked down on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6d9e4434-59da-43c5-86bc-657aa82c8fc1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to police, the road will be closed there for a &#8220;significant amount of time&#8221; until repairs are finished.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver suffered minor injuries in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash closed a portion of South Saunders Street in Raleigh early Monday morning. Police said the car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,451,3,51876,452,453],"class_list":["post-691402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-raleigh","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}