{"id":51783,"date":"2023-11-27T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51783"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:42:55","slug":"west-midlands-metro-55-damaged-in-car-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51783","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Metro 55 damaged in car collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>55<\/strong>, the most recent tram to have entered service on the West Midlands Metro, has suffered damage after being involved in a collision with a car at Priestfield. The collision happened on the afternoon of Saturday 25<sup>th<\/sup> November 2023.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The location of the collision was as the tramway joins the road just to the Wolverhampton side of Priestfield tramstop. A car struck the side of the tram with the impact seeing the car then hitting a lamppost.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the damage to <strong>55<\/strong> \u2013 which only entered service on 14<sup>th<\/sup> November 2023 \u2013 has yet to be determined with the tram having been returned to depot for assessment once the scene was cleared. It now joins <strong>42<\/strong> off the road with that tram still waiting for completion of repairs after it was hit by a unmarked Police car during driver training on the Wolverhampton Railway Station extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>55, the most recent tram to have entered service on the West Midlands Metro, has suffered damage after being involved in a collision with a car at Priestfield. The collision happened on the afternoon of Saturday 25th November 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783"}],"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=51783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51784,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783\/revisions\/51784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}