{"id":85480,"date":"2025-05-08T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85480\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:08:11","slug":"fiji-rugby-player-dead-in-car-crash-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85480\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji rugby player dead in car crash in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4K7OQMP_AFP__20250508__44X74ZR__v1__HighRes__FilesFraFijRugbyTopAccident_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"(FILES) Castres' Fiji wing Josaia Raisuqe celebrates after scoring a try during the French Top14 rugby union match between Castres Olympique and Rugby Club Toulonnais (Toulon) at The Pierre-Fabre Stadium in Castres, south-western France, on April 22, 2023. Josaia Raisuqe died on May 8, 2025 in a car accident after being hit by a train, according to the club, confirming information reported by the Rugbyrama website. (Photo by Valentine CHAPUIS \/ AFP)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nJosaia Raisuqe celebrates after scoring a try for Castres during the French Top14 in 2023.<br \/>\nPhoto: VALENTINE CHAPUIS\n<\/p>\n<p>Fiji rugby player Josaia Raisuqe has died in a car crash in France, where he played for Top 14 side Castres Olympique.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was a member of the Fiji sevens side that won silver at last year&#8217;s Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reports said his car was struck by a train at a level crossing.<\/p>\n<p>The club, which he joined in 2021, said on Facebook it was in mourning.<\/p>\n<p>It has extended its condolences to his loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><b>More to come.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josaia Raisuqe celebrates after scoring a try for Castres during the French Top14 in 2023. Photo: VALENTINE CHAPUIS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1816,9409,2000,299,36,12,196,10975,10973,10974],"class_list":{"0":"post-85480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114474025222791189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85480","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=85480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}