{"id":15966,"date":"2020-08-04T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=15966"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:42:25","slug":"dutch-settlement-man-identified-as-vicitim-of-crash-on-hwy-277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=15966","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Settlement man identified as vicitim of crash on Hwy 277"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DUTCH SETTLEMENT:<\/strong> A 70-year-old man from Dutch Settlement has been killed in a single-vehicle collision Monday morning, Aug. 3, shortly before 8 a.m. on Hwy 277.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a release Halifax District RCMP spokeswoman, Cpl. Lisa Croteau, said police along with fire crews from area fire departments and EHS responded to the crash at approximately 7:50 a.m. near the 400 block on Hwy 277 in Dutch Settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon their arrival, they located a van which had left the road and struck a tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The driver and lone occupant, a\u00a070-year-old man from Dutch Settlement was pronounced deceased at the scene,&#8221; said Cpl. Croteau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An RCMP Collision Analyst attended, and the highway was closed for several hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the victim&#8217;s family at this difficult time,&#8221; said Cpl. Croteau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUTCH SETTLEMENT: A 70-year-old man from Dutch Settlement has been killed in a single-vehicle collision Monday morning, Aug. 3, shortly before 8 a.m. on Hwy 277. In a release Halifax District RCMP spokeswoman, Cpl. Lisa Croteau, said police along with fire crews from area fire departments and EHS responded to the crash at approximately 7:50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[1301,608,14],"class_list":["post-15966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-dutch-settlement","tag-fatal-crash","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}