{"id":47823,"date":"2024-08-21T20:37:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T23:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=47823"},"modified":"2024-08-21T20:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T23:37:26","slug":"man-suffers-broken-leg-in-single-vehicle-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=47823","title":{"rendered":"Man suffers broken leg in single-vehicle collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CENTRE RAWDON:<\/strong> Police say alcohol was not a factor in a single vehicle collision on Highway 14 in Centre Rawdon on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer, said RCMP, Rawdon fire, and EHS responded to the collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the 28-year-old man from Rawdon called in the collision himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe explained that he had swerved to avoid hitting a deer, but in doing so lost control of his vehicle and plummeted 15 feet into a deep ditch,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arrival by officers, it was determined the man had suffered a broken leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was air lifted by life flight to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlcohol was not a factor in the collision,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;] CENTRE RAWDON: Police say alcohol was not a factor in a single vehicle collision on Highway 14 in Centre Rawdon on Aug. 9. East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer, said RCMP, Rawdon fire, and EHS responded to the collision. He said the 28-year-old man from Rawdon called in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12,957],"tags":[7242,2907,196,63,1193,3015,14],"class_list":["post-47823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-news","tag-alcohol-not-a-factor","tag-centre-rawdon","tag-east-hants","tag-mvc","tag-rawdon","tag-rawdon-fire","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47823","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=47823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}