{"id":48997,"date":"2024-10-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=48997"},"modified":"2024-10-07T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:00:00","slug":"driver-uninjured-vehicle-seriously-damaged-after-hwy-102-mvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=48997","title":{"rendered":"Driver uninjured, vehicle seriously damaged after Hwy 102 mvc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> A water bottle is being blamed for a single-vehicle collision that left a car withs erious damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns said that police received a call on Oct. 2 after a crash notification from an iPhone was received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mvc was said to have occurred on Hwy 102 north bound near Exit 8 in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon, arrival officers found a lone male cleaning debris off the highway and noted a car in the ditch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers moved the man from the roadway in order to avoid a more serious incident and determined that he was uninjured and not impaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe explained that he was trying to reach for a water bottle that was on the floor behind him when he hit the shoulder of the road, lost control, hit a guardrail and landed in the ditch,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The car was seriously damaged and towed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said the man was given a courtesy drive to the nearest rental car company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;] ELMSDALE: A water bottle is being blamed for a single-vehicle collision that left a car withs erious damage. East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns said that police received a call on Oct. 2 after a crash notification from an iPhone was received. The mvc was said to have occurred on Hwy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[986,62,63,14,7510,7511],"class_list":["post-48997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-elmsdale","tag-hwy-102","tag-mvc","tag-rcmp","tag-serioius-damage","tag-water-bottle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48997","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=48997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48997\/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=48997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}