{"id":1976,"date":"2009-03-12T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T05:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2009-03-12T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T05:15:12","slug":"full-speed-tram-crash-in-rotterdam-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/1976","title":{"rendered":"Full Speed Tram Crash in Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tramcrash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"tramcrash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tramcrash-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"tramcrash\" width=\"455\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well this is something I haven\u2019t heard of happening since I\u2019ve been living here.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at approximately 2:25pm in the afternoon tram 23, heading in direction Holy smashed full speed into the back of tram 21, which was standing still at the time.\u00a0\u00a0 The crash took place in Rotterdam West in the Vierambachtsstraat near Mathenesserplein in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p>In total 39 people were injured.\u00a0 Ten with neck injuries and broken bones, while 29 others escaped with minor cuts and bruises.\u00a0 The numbers could have been much worse if the tram had been busier with more people standing.<\/p>\n<p>Police have detained the driver for questioning as they investigate the cause, but one theory is said to be that the sun may have been in the eyes of the driver at the time.<\/p>\n<p>For more photos visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/leoroubos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Roubos&#8217; photostream<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is something I haven\u2019t heard of happening since I\u2019ve been living here. Yesterday at approximately 2:25pm in the afternoon tram 23, heading in direction Holy smashed full speed into the back of tram 21, which was standing still at the time.\u00a0\u00a0 The crash took place in Rotterdam West in the Vierambachtsstraat near Mathenesserplein &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59,33,73],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-dutch-news","tag-netherlands","tag-rotterdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}