{"id":624403,"date":"2025-12-10T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624403\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:54:22","slug":"car-overturns-after-crashing-into-lamppost-on-bristol-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624403\/","title":{"rendered":"Car overturns after crashing into lamppost on Bristol road"},"content":{"rendered":"

The road remains closed<\/p>\n

A vehicle overturned in Bristol today after crashing into a streetlight, knocking it over and completely blocking the road.<\/p>\n

Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to Park Road in Stapleton just before 10:30am (December 10).<\/p>\n

A man and a woman, both in the car, were awaiting an ambulance assessment after the driver hit a lamppost, causing it to fall over.<\/p>\n

The busy road between Duchess Way and Brinkworthy Road on the B4058 has been closed since the incident, resulting in slow traffic in the area.<\/p>\n

Three fire crews from Temple, Avonmouth<\/a> and Southmead<\/a> fire stations attended the collision and made the vehicle safe, while working with the ambulance service to assist the casualties.<\/p>\n

An overturned car on Park Road, Stapleton, Bristol(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Avon Fire and Rescue<\/a> Service said: “At 10:27 on Wednesday 10 December, crews from Temple, Avonmouth and Southmead fire stations were called to a road traffic collision involving a single vehicle and a lamppost in the Park Road area of Stapleton, Bristol.<\/p>\n

“On arrival, firefighters made the vehicle safe and worked alongside colleagues from the ambulance service to assist two casualties at the scene. “Officers from Avon and Somerset Police were also in attendance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avon and Somerset police<\/a> confirmed that the road is expected to remain closed until the vehicle is recovered and the streetlight is repaired.<\/p>\n

Emergency services have closed the road after a vehicle overturned(Image: Paul Gillis)<\/p>\n

A spokesperson from the force said: “Emergency services are at the scene of a single-vehicle collision during which a streetlight came down, blocking the road.<\/p>\n

“It happened just before 10.30am on Wednesday 10 December in Park Road, Stapleton, Bristol.<\/p>\n

“A man and woman who were in the vehicle are awaiting assessment by ambulance crew.<\/p>\n

“The road is expected to remain closed pending recovery of the vehicle and repair to the streetlight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road remains closed A vehicle overturned in Bristol today after crashing into a streetlight, knocking it over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,15066,381,748,393,4884,10963,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-624403","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-avonmouth","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-southmead","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115695849965557703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624403","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=624403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}