{"id":14159,"date":"2019-07-27T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02819f3920002458"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:09:50","slug":"north-carolina-highway-patrol-trooper-gets-paralyzed-from-on-duty-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2019\/07\/27\/north-carolina-highway-patrol-trooper-gets-paralyzed-from-on-duty-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"NORTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY PATROL TROOPER GETS PARALYZED FROM ON DUTY CAR ACCIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/charlottealerts\/news\/state-trooper-seriously-injured-after-traffic-stop-car-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A state trooper with North Carolina State Highway Patrol injured in a motorcycle crash in Charlotte, NC on the morning of July 22, 2019<\/a> has been paralyzed from the neck down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trooper Christopher L. Wooten, a 14-year highway patrol veteran, was involved in a collision. Wooten was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Dontay Kilgo, 36, is charged in connection with the crash, as he allegedly ran away from a traffic stop initiated by Trooper Wooten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days later on Friday afternoon, it was revealed that Wooten had suffered significant spinal cord trauma during the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surgeons are classifying Wooten&#8217;s injury as a complete spinal cord injury at the top of the spine, which is resulting in paralysis from the neck down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wooten was trying to stop a vehicle allegedly driven by Dontay, but the trooper instead collided with a second vehicle. The first vehicle that Wooten was trying to pull over kept going and did not remain at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The alleged driver of the vehicle who left the scene is Dontay Kilgo, he was caught days later. Dontay was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer, felony flee to elude, reckless driving, failure to heed to blue lights, driving while license revoked, and possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bad vehicular accident caused this state trooper to get paralyzed from the neck down <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19065,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/19065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}