{"id":1140572,"date":"2026-08-09T23:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1140572\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:46:14","slug":"man-dies-at-scene-after-van-hits-parked-cars-in-knowle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1140572\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies at scene after van hits parked cars in Knowle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police are appealing for information after a fatal collision in <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/knowle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Knowle <\/a>yesterday morning (Saturday, August 8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A van collided with two parked vehicles at around 8.30am on Beaconsfield Road. The driver died on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a statement released today, a spokesperson for <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said: &#8220;We are appealing for witnesses to a fatal collision in South Bristol yesterday (Saturday 8 August).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;A blue Citroen Berlingo van collided with two parked vehicles at around 8.30am on Beaconsfield Road, in Knowle. Sadly, despite the best efforts of emergency services personnel, the driver died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;His family have been updated, and they are being offered support by a specialist officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Any witnesses or people with useful information are urged to contact the police on 101 quoting reference number 5226222686. Alternatively, you can complete an online appeal form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information after a fatal collision in Knowle yesterday morning (Saturday, August 8). A van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1140573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,393,4884,16656,16,15],"class_list":["post-1140572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-knowle","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}