{"id":667567,"date":"2026-01-01T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667567\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:50:12","slug":"pc-punched-in-throat-by-man-fleeing-dudley-crash-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667567\/","title":{"rendered":"PC punched in throat by man fleeing Dudley crash scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man has been arrested after a policewoman was punched in the throat while she attended a crash scene. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police was called to Robert Street in Lower Gornal, Dudley, just before 05:30 GMT on Thursday to reports that a Ford Ranger had crashed into a wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said a man, talking some distance away from the scene, hit out at the officer as she tried to stop him from getting into a Range Rover, driven by a second person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vehicle made off but two suspects were found in the Swindon area of Staffordshire, police said. A 46-year-old man was detained on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker, and drink-driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a policewoman was punched in the throat while she attended a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-667567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115821820522241838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667567","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=667567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}