{"id":678890,"date":"2026-01-07T01:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678890\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:39:17","slug":"lorry-driver-dies-after-vehicle-leaves-road-near-selby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678890\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorry driver dies after vehicle leaves road near Selby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A lorry driver has died in a crash near Selby after his vehicle came off the road.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Yorkshire Police said the man&#8217;s white Scania HGV left the road at Drax at about 02:00 GMT before coming to rest in a field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver, who was in his sixties and from the Humberside area, was pronounced dead at the scene despite the efforts of emergency workers and members of the public, the force said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road remained closed until about 13:00 for investigative work and recovery of the vehicle, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lorry driver has died in a crash near Selby after his vehicle came off the road. North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-678890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115851268123271676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678890","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=678890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}