{"id":21459,"date":"2021-05-18T23:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T02:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=21459"},"modified":"2021-05-18T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T02:09:47","slug":"good-samaritan-helps-police-nab-hit-and-run-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=21459","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan helps police nab hit-and-run driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> RCMP have charged a man with leaving the scene of a hit-and-run at a grocery store in Elmsdale on May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell, with East Hants RCMP in Enfield, said police received a report of a hit-and-run in the Elmsdale Superstore parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA man driving a pickup truck backed into a parked car, causing damage to the smaller vehicle,\u201d said S\/Sgt. Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, according to a witness, the driver of the truck exited his vehicle, observed the damage, and then left the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe matter was reported by a Good Samaritan who witnessed the event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Bushell said the man, who is an East Hants resident, was charged for leaving the scene of an accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADVERTISEMENT: [adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] ELMSDALE: RCMP have charged a man with leaving the scene of a hit-and-run at a grocery store in Elmsdale on May 15. S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell, with East Hants RCMP in Enfield, said police received a report of a hit-and-run in the Elmsdale Superstore parking lot. \u201cA man driving a pickup truck backed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[196,986,1671,14],"class_list":["post-21459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale","tag-hit-and-run-2","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459","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=21459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}