{"id":939934,"date":"2026-05-05T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/939934\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:19:13","slug":"switch-island-live-updates-as-crash-causes-traffic-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/939934\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Island live updates as &#8216;crash&#8217; causes traffic chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A force spokesperson said: &#8220;We can confirm that there was a road traffic collision involving a police vehicle at Switch Island in Bootle today, Tuesday 5 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;At around 3.35pm, we received a report that a police car was in collision with another car as it was responding to an emergency incident, and then collided with a post at the Dunnings Bridge Road section of Switch Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;At present no injuries reported but all parties are getting checked over by medics.&#8221;An investigation into the collision is being carried out, and we are appealing for anyone who saw the collision, or who has dashcam footage, to contact police as soon as possible.&#8221;Anyone who witnessed the crash or captured anything on CCTV or dashcam is asked to contact police via @MerPolCC on Twitter (X) or \u2018Merseyside Police Contact Centre\u2019 on Facebook, with log 642 of 5 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A force spokesperson said: &#8220;We can confirm that there was a road traffic collision involving a police vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,1031,393,4884,179,142428,52797,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-939934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-car-collision","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-m57","14":"tag-switch-island","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116523589214214029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939934","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=939934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}