{"id":264810,"date":"2025-07-14T17:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264810\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:42:17","slug":"police-officer-charged-after-serious-crash-with-pedestrian-in-emersons-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264810\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer charged after serious crash with pedestrian in Emersons Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was responding to an emergency in an unmarked police car when the crash happened<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Avon-And-Somerset-Police-Hq.jpg\" alt=\"Avon and Somerset Police HQ\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Avon and Somerset Police HQ(Image: Copyright Unknown)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A serving Avon and Somerset Police Officer is due to appear in court accused of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after colliding with a pedestrian in Emersons Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">PC Dan Parsons, 32, was responding to an emergency in an unmarked police car when the vehicle struck a pedestrian on a roundabout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The collision took place on Sunday, November 24 at the roundabout where the A4174 meets Badminton Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A 19-year-old woman was taken to hospital with injuries following the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">PC Parsons, based in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/south-gloucestershire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">South Gloucestershire<\/a>, was charged following the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on Tuesday, July 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Avon and Somerset Police has made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) which determined a local investigation by the force&#8217;s own Professional Standards Department would be suitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The force&#8217;s serious collision investigations team made enquiries following the crash and the matter was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was responding to an emergency in an unmarked police car when the crash happenedAvon and Somerset Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,30,188,393,4884,10299,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-264810","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-courts","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-south-gloucestershire","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114852825972954241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264810","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=264810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}