{"id":63967,"date":"2026-08-02T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63967"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:26:21","slug":"two-incidents-on-metrolink-see-men-in-their-50s-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63967","title":{"rendered":"Two incidents on Metrolink see men in their 50s taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men in their 50s have been taken to hospital within a few days of each other at the end of July following separate incidents involving Manchester Metrolink trams.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the first incident at around 1845 on Friday 24<sup>th<\/sup> July a cyclist was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a tram at Benchill tramstop on the Airport line.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the incident was dealt with Metrolink services were suspended between Robinswood Road and Roundthorn.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Wednesday 29<sup>th<\/sup> July a man suffered potentially life-changing injuries after he got trapped climbing into the space between two coupled trams at Market Street tramstop.<\/p>\n<p>A major Police incident was declared with a cordon in place around the tramstop both whilst the man was freed and also after he was taken to hospital to aid an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In this latter incident trams from Bury terminated at Victoria with those from Ashton being turned at Piccadilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men in their 50s have been taken to hospital within a few days of each other at the end of July following separate incidents involving Manchester Metrolink trams.<\/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\/63967"}],"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=63967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63968,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63967\/revisions\/63968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}