{"id":686741,"date":"2026-01-10T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:47:11","slug":"gritter-lorry-overturns-on-black-ice-in-devon-amid-ice-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686741\/","title":{"rendered":"Gritter lorry overturns on black ice in Devon amid ice warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency services have warned of “challenging conditions” and black ice after the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for ice across parts of Devon and Cornwall.<\/b><\/p>\n

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said motorists should be mindful of risk of black ice, which was not always visible, as a result of low temperatures combined with recent rain.<\/p>\n

The fire service said it was sent to a report of a gritter lorry that overturned on Dousland Road in Princetown, Devon, at 07:10 on Saturday, after skidding on black ice. The driver had to be released from the vehicle, but was uninjured.<\/p>\n

The warning for ice, external<\/a> was issued from 12:00 GMT on Friday and is due to end at midday on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services have warned of “challenging conditions” and black ice after the Met Office issued a yellow weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-686741","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686741","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=686741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}