{"id":123114,"date":"2025-05-22T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123114\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:42:12","slug":"police-officer-dragged-by-van-after-it-failed-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123114\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer &#8216;dragged&#8217; by van after it failed to stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were arrested following the incident<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_AD_22-05-2025_a4bathroadJPG.jpg\" alt=\"The A4 Bath Road near Totterdown Bridge.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The A4 Bath Road near Totterdown Bridge.(Image: Avon &amp; Somerset Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A police officer was dragged a short distance by a vehicle after attempting to stop it from driving in a bus lane on one of Bristol&#8217;s busiest roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On Wednesday, April 23, at around 8am, a vehicle was driving in a bus lane on the A4 Bath Road, near Totterdown Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An officer, who was on a foot patrol at the time, attempted to stop the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At this time, he was involved in a collision with a white Ford transit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The officer was dragged a short distance by the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The van left the scene without stopping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said the officer did not suffer any serious injuries from the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two men, aged 18 and 23, were <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm and failure to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The police force is asking for anyone who saw the incident or have any relevant footage to contact the force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Avon and Somerset Police said: &#8220;If you can help, please call 101 and give the call handler the reference number 5225113419, or complete our <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avonandsomerset.police.uk\/forms\/sia?Reference=5225113419\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">online appeals form<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were arrested following the incidentThe A4 Bath Road near Totterdown Bridge.(Image: Avon &amp; Somerset Police) A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,188,393,548,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-123114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-ford","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114552723516765968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123114","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=123114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}