{"id":7984,"date":"2022-05-30T23:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02a280bf900024e2"},"modified":"2022-05-30T23:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:45:04","slug":"man-dies-in-fatal-west-charlotte-collision-on-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/man-dies-in-fatal-west-charlotte-collision-on-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN DIES IN FATAL WEST CHARLOTTE COLLISION ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ricky Dinkins, 31, was killed in a fatal motor vehicle collision on Memorial Day weekend 2022 on Freedom Drive Charlotte, NC. Ricky died on May 29, 2022. Many children were injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/police-night-img_2389.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>The wreck was at 9:59 p.m., Ricky was driving a Nissan car, allegedly in a reckless manner on Freedom Dr., side swiping a vehicle and continuing at a high rate of speed. <\/p>\n<p>The Nissan entered the intersection of Freedom Drive and Toddville Road allegedly running a red light and colliding with a Cadillac Escalade driven by 40-year-old Michael Jordan. <\/p>\n<p>Seven kids were in the Cadillac Escalade during the crash. The driver of the Cadillac and seven juvenile passengers were located on scene with serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Upon medic\u2019s arrival, the driver of the Nissan, Ricky was pronounced deceased due to injuries he sustained from the crash. <\/p>\n<p>The Nissan had a front seat passenger that has life threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Several of the juvenile passengers were not correctly restrained in the vehicle. Impairment is suspected to be the leading cause of this crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Dinkins lost his life in a major collision on Memorial Day weekend 2022, several kids were hurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,192,175,152,173,77,20,82,75,78,169,318,141,230,268,277,10,121,238,190,130,117],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ambulance","tag-car-collision","tag-car-fatality","tag-children","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-dead-body","tag-deadly-crash","tag-fatal","tag-fatal-collision","tag-head-on-collision","tag-holiday","tag-hospital","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorial-day-weekend","tag-paramedics","tag-vehicle","tag-vehicle-collision","tag-vehicle-wreck","tag-west-charlotte","tag-wreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","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=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}