{"id":67832,"date":"2016-02-22T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=efccdbe42de9ac60aecf74111973c618"},"modified":"2016-02-22T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:09:00","slug":"press-release-serious-incident-involving-traffic-officers-on-m6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67832","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Serious incident involving traffic officers on M6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Two Highways England traffic officers were involved in a serious incident on the M6 in Cumbria yesterday (Sunday 21 February) in which one officer was killed and the other seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>The officers had been responding to an incident on the southbound M6 between junctions 38 and 37 near Tebay Services when they were struck by a vehicle veering off the main carriageway just after midday.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Gibb, 51, from Penrith, suffered fatal injuries and another officer, who is not being named, was airlifted to the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough in a very serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is being asked to call Cumbria Police on 101 or 0300 124 0111.<\/p>\n<p>Jim O\u2019Sullivan, Chief Executive at Highways England, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with the family, friends, and colleagues of the 2 Highways England traffic officers who were involved in this terrible incident.<\/p>\n<p>The police are carrying out an investigation and we are assisting them in any way that we can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Everyone at Highways England has been deeply affected by this incident and we would ask that the privacy of those closest to the officers is respected at this difficult time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"general-enquiries\">General enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the public should contact the Highways England customer contact centre on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Journalists should contact the Highways England press office on 0844 693 1448 and use the menu to speak to the most appropriate press officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highways England traffic officers involved in serious incident on the M6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67853,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832\/revisions\/67853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}