{"id":132956,"date":"2025-10-20T00:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:59:16","slug":"broadband-restored-in-beaminster-four-days-after-car-crash-outage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132956\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband restored in Beaminster four days after car crash outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road between Beaminster and the A356 was closed due to the fire in White Sheet Hill at about 22:45 BST on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset Police said it was still trying to locate the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset Council arranged for the burnt-out vehicle to be removed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The outage also knocked out phone lines, affecting schools, a GP surgery, businesses and people working from home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset councillor for Beaminster, Craig Monks, said: &#8220;We will need to ask questions on how this was allowed to happen and how resilient our connection is. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The internet is vital to residents and businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Openreach said it reviewed all incidents to see if lessons could be learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road between Beaminster and the A356 was closed due to the fire in White Sheet Hill at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[18,19,285,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-132956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}