{"id":902919,"date":"2026-11-02T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902919\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:48:09","slug":"car-catches-fire-after-hitting-deer-on-i-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902919\/","title":{"rendered":"Car catches fire after hitting deer on I-95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GROTON, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; A car caught fire on I-95 in Groton Saturday night after state police say the vehicle hit a deer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to CT DOT, the incident happened on I-95 south between Exits 87 and 86 at approximately 6:42 p.m., closing the right lane for less than an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State police say the car caught fire after hitting a deer, and another vehicle then ran over the deer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No injuries have been reported, and it is unclear if the deer survived the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GROTON, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; A car caught fire on I-95 in Groton Saturday night after state police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[19093,247931,378002,197272,378003,287500,378001,53330,78146,79,201],"class_list":["post-902919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-car-crash","tag-car-fire","tag-car-hits-deer","tag-ct-dot","tag-ct-state-police","tag-groton","tag-groton-ct","tag-i-95-crash","tag-i-95-south","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902919","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=902919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}