{"id":26846,"date":"2013-02-09T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/driver-killed-exiting-car-mway-095141417.html"},"modified":"2013-02-09T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:13:37","slug":"driver-killed-after-exiting-car-on-mway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/driver-killed-after-exiting-car-on-mway\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Killed After Exiting Car On M&#8217;way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">A driver died when he got out of his car in the middle lane of a motorway and was struck by a number of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c4\">It happened on the southbound carriageway of the<\/span> M18 <span class=\"c4\">near<\/span> Doncaster <span class=\"c4\">shortly after<\/span> 7am <span class=\"c4\">on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c4\">The 53-year-old, from Gilberdyke, Humberside, was believed to have got out of his blue Ford Escort after it stopped in the middle lane between junction three and two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c4\">A 26-year-old in a green Ford Transit tried to avoid a collision but clipped the Focus, then hit the man, South Yorkshire Police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c4\">Two lorries collided with the van, then one of the trucks hit the man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c4\">A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said the 53-year-old suffered &#8220;fatal injuries&#8221; and five people in other vehicles received whiplash.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver died when he got out of his car in the middle lane of a motorway and was struck by a number of vehicles.<br \/>\nIt happened on the southbound carriageway of the M18 near Doncaster shortly after 7am on Friday.<br \/>\nThe 53-year-old, from Gilberdyke, Humber&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}