{"id":7207,"date":"2021-12-09T05:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2021-12-09T05:58:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:58:05","slug":"excavator-lands-on-occupied-vehicle-stopped-at-red-light-at-toms-river-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/12\/excavator-lands-on-occupied-vehicle-stopped-at-red-light-at-toms-river-intersection\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavator Lands on Occupied Vehicle Stopped at Red Light at Toms River Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7208\" style=\"width: 1546px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trax-e1639047405447.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"An accident in Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Ray Perez)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"An accident in Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Ray Perez)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7208\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trax-e1639047405447.jpeg\" alt=\"An accident in Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Ray Perez)\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trax-e1639047405447.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trax-e1639047405447-300x230.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trax-e1639047405447-1024x785.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trax-e1639047405447-768x589.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An accident in Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Ray Perez)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A tragedy was narrowly avoided Wednesday after an excavator that was being towed by another vehicle landed on an occupied car stopped at a red light in Toms River.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, there were no injuries in the incident, which occurred at 5:40 p.m. at the intersection of Whitesville Road and Route 70.<\/p>\n<p>According to police spokeswoman Jillian Messina, Christoph Caches, 56 of Toms River, told responding officers that he was driving west on Route 70, towing a trailer loaded with an excavator, and made a right turn onto Whitesville Road. Once he made the turn, the trailer apparently flipped over and the excavator landed on a vehicle that was stopped on Whitesville Road for a red traffic signal.<\/p>\n<p>Caches was issued a summons for careless driving. The accident remains under investigation by the Toms River Police Safety Officer Ryan Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/12\/excavator-lands-on-occupied-vehicle-stopped-at-red-light-at-toms-river-intersection\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tragedy was narrowly avoided Wednesday after an excavator that was being towed by another vehicle landed on an occupied car stopped at a red light in Toms River. Amazingly, there were no injuries in the incident, which occurred at 5:40 p.m. at the intersection of Whitesville Road and Route 70. According to police spokeswoman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[374,1444,1080,11],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-accident","tag-excavator","tag-featured","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trax-e1639047405447.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}