{"id":182507,"date":"2025-06-14T01:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182507\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T01:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:14:25","slug":"utter-tragedy-as-third-person-dies-after-scooter-pile-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182507\/","title":{"rendered":"Utter tragedy as third person dies after scooter pile-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A car and three motorcycles were involved in the collision on the A36<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_BR050422crime_scenePAG-7.jpg\" alt=\"Stock photo of crime scene\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Stock photo of crime scene(Image: Paul Gillis\/Bristol Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A third person has died following a crash on the A36 two weeks ago which claimed the life of a man who lived near Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On Saturday, May 31, at around 10.30am, a red Toyota Prius and three Vespas were involved in a crash at Knook, near Warminster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A rider of a Vespa, Robert Best, 62 and of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/bradley-stoke\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bradley Stoke<\/a>, was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was travelling with a friend to Normandy at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1749863665_647_0_AD_02-06-2025_robbest.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Best, 62, was fatally injured in a crash.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Rob Best, 62, was fatally injured in a crash.(Image: Wiltshire Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Rob was described as a &#8220;good husband, father, son, brother and friend&#8221; in a tribute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Days later, on June 5, a woman in her 60s, who was riding pillion on a second Vespa, died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A third person, a man in his 60s, was the rider of the third Vespa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He died from his injuries in hospital yesterday evening (Thursday, June 12).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It means that a person riding on each of the Vespas has now died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Wiltshire Police said: &#8220;His next of kin are aware and our thoughts are with his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Wiltshire Police said: &#8220;We continue to appeal for witnesses and dashcam footage of the incident as our enquiries into the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/traffic-travel\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">collision<\/a> continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;If you witnessed the collision, and we haven\u2019t yet spoken to you, please contact Wiltshire Police&#8217;s Serious Collision Investigation Team on 01225 694597 quoting log number 101 of May 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Alternatively, you can contact the team directly by emailing <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/mailto:SCIT@wiltshire.police.uk\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">SCIT@wiltshire.police.uk<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car and three motorcycles were involved in the collision on the A36Stock photo of crime scene(Image: Paul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[15721,381,748,393,4884,9731,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-182507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bradley-stoke","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-traffic-travel","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114679071800349417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182507","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=182507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}