{"id":309329,"date":"2025-08-01T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309329\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:17:14","slug":"motorcyclist-29-killed-in-crash-with-van-in-acocks-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309329\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist, 29, killed in crash with van in Acocks Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Officers were called to the A41 Warwick Road in Acocks Green, just before 7am.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the force said: &#8220;The man, aged 29, sadly died at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The motorcyclist\u2019s family are being supported by specially trained officers at this tragic time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The van driver was shaken but not injured&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police are appealing for witnesses following the fatal incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Road closures remain in place from the junction of Fox Hollies Road to Flint Green Road while the investigation continues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  West Midlands Police added: &#8220;If you have any information, CCTV or dashcam footage from the scene around that time that could help our investigation call us on 101 quoting log number 605 of 1 August.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers were called to the A41 Warwick Road in Acocks Green, just before 7am.\u00a0 A spokesperson for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309329","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=309329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}