{"id":52372,"date":"2025-02-14T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=52372"},"modified":"2025-02-14T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:30:00","slug":"driver-ticketed-for-hitting-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=52372","title":{"rendered":"Driver ticketed for hitting pedestrian"},"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>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> A driver from the East Hants area has been ticketed after hitting a pedestrian with the vehicle they were driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, community policing officer, said an officer from the Enfield detachment was on patrol on Hwy 2 in Elmsdale when the incident happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The officer witnessed a vehicle vs pedestrian collision in a crosswalk,&#8221; said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;231&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EHS and local volunteer fire departments also responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that fortunately, the pedestrian was uninjured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said the driver of the vehicle was served a summary offence ticket for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;230&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;] ELMSDALE: A driver from the East Hants area has been ticketed after hitting a pedestrian with the vehicle they were driving. East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, community policing officer, said an officer from the Enfield detachment was on patrol on Hwy 2 in Elmsdale when the incident happened. &#8220;The officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[196,986,1594,14,7776],"class_list":["post-52372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale","tag-hit-and-run","tag-rcmp","tag-vehicle-vs-pedestrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52372","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=52372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52372\/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=52372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}