{"id":8811,"date":"2021-01-15T08:01:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117892\/hong-kong-truck-driver-survives-being-flung-out"},"modified":"2021-01-15T08:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:01:37","slug":"hong-kong-truck-driver-survives-being-flung-out-of-vehicle-after-crashing-into-road-barrier-on-yuen-long-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/hong-kong-truck-driver-survives-being-flung-out-of-vehicle-after-crashing-into-road-barrier-on-yuen-long-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong truck driver survives being flung out of vehicle after crashing into road barrier on Yuen Long Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"A truck driver was flung out of his vehicle when it crashed into a roadside barrier on a motorway, but he survived the accident in northern Hong Kong on Friday.The incident occurred shortly before 8am when the container truck was travelling along Yuen Long Highway to Hung Tin Road via a slip road.Initial investigation showed the truck hit the noise barrier and rammed into a central divider.\u201cThe driver was thrown out of the vehicle and flung into the opposite lane by the force of the impact, \u201d a\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117892\/hong-kong-truck-driver-survives-being-flung-out\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck driver was flung out of his vehicle when it crashed into a roadside barrier on a motorway, but he survived the accident in northern Hong Kong on Friday.The incident occurred shortly before 8am when the container truck was travelling along Yuen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}