{"id":200268,"date":"2025-06-20T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200268\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:11:10","slug":"man-taken-to-hospital-after-concern-for-welfare-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200268\/","title":{"rendered":"Man taken to hospital after concern for welfare incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stapleton Road was closed for over two hours<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_4256JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Stapleton Road \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Stapleton Road (Image: Google )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has been taken to hospital following an incident on a main road in Bristol today, Friday, June 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police were called to Stapleton Road around 12.50pm today after concerns for the welfare of a man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers arrived at the scene and found a man in an agitated state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Relatives of the man were contacted and brought to support him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ambulance crews were also called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The man was handed into the care of ambulance crews and was taken to hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At the time of the incident, roads and traffic monitoring site Inrix, reported Stapleton Road was blocked in both directions due to an ongoing police incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Just over two hours after emergency services were called to the scene, the road was reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said: &#8220;Police were called to Stapleton Road in Bristol at about 12.50pm on Friday 20 June after reports of concern for the welfare of a man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Officers attended and found a man in an agitated state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The ambulance service was called, and officers contacted a relative of the man, bringing them to the scene to support him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The man was handed into the care of the ambulance service who took him to hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Stapleton Road reopened at 3.22pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stapleton Road was closed for over two hoursStapleton Road (Image: Google ) A man has been taken to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-200268","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-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114716572911750634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200268","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=200268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}