{"id":9783,"date":"2021-08-02T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci0289afa1f0002560"},"modified":"2021-08-02T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:04:25","slug":"2-dead-after-car-catches-fire-in-night-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2021\/08\/02\/2-dead-after-car-catches-fire-in-night-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"2 DEAD AFTER CAR CATCHES FIRE IN NIGHT WRECK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Major Crash Investigation Unit is investigating a fatality traffic crash that occurred on Colville Road Charlotte, NC.&nbsp;Robert Walker and Henry Melvin were killed in the fiery crash.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday August 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2021 at 2:27 a.m., officers responded to a serious injury crash involving a vehicle striking a tree and catching on fire. 4 people were in the vehicle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a Mercedes Benz car was traveling at a high rate of speed. The Benz lost control and struck the curb. It then exited the curve and ran off the road. The car then struck a set of brick steps and then a tree before catching on fire.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers located a severely damaged and burning Mercedes Benz and its four injured occupants.&nbsp;Henry Melvin and&nbsp;Robert Walker were pronounced deceased on scene by medic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The other 2 passengers were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excessive speed appears to be a factor for the driver. Impairment test results are pending. There were no known witnesses to the crash.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double death wreck resulted in a car hitting bricks, a tree, and then going up in flames<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[445,425,436,439,75,329,434,332,238,344],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-dead","tag-car-crash","tag-car-on-fire","tag-car-wreck","tag-deadly-crash","tag-fire","tag-fire-department","tag-firey-crash","tag-vehicle-collision","tag-vehicular-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","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=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}