{"id":26899,"date":"2019-04-11T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26899"},"modified":"2019-04-11T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:36:55","slug":"man-in-critical-condition-after-being-hit-by-tram-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26899","title":{"rendered":"Man in critical condition after being hit by tram in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 77 year old man \u2013 named locally as Ray Boddington a well known busker and member of the Piccadilly Rats \u2013 is in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a tram in Manchester City Centre. He was hit by a tram heading towards Victoria at the junction of High Street and Church Street shortly after departure from Market Street at approximately 1850 on Wednesday 10th April. He suffered serious head injuries and is described as being in a serious condition. Greater Manchester Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 77 year old man \u2013 named locally as Ray Boddington a well known busker and member of the Piccadilly Rats \u2013 is in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a tram in Manchester City Centre. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26901,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions\/26901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}