{"id":16290,"date":"2017-11-22T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/22\/bus-driver-died-after-crashing-into-rocks-to-save-passengers-inquest-hears\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:57:41","slug":"bus-driver-died-after-crashing-into-rocks-to-save-passengers-inquest-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=16290","title":{"rendered":"Bus driver died after crashing into rocks to save passengers, inquest hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Wrightson from Northumberland had been descending a precarious road from French ski resort Alpe d\u2019Huez when the brakes in his bus failedA heroic bus driver died in a \u201ccomplete inferno\u201d after deciding to drive straight into boulders on a narrow mountain road to try to save his passengers, an inquest heard.Maurice Wrightson, 63, from Ashington, Northumberland, had been descending the precarious D211 road from French ski resort Alpe d\u2019Huez with a coach full of British resort staff on 16 April 2013. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/22\/bus-driver-crashed-into-rocks-to-save-passengers-inquest-hears\" target=\"_blank\">Bus driver died after crashing into rocks to save passengers, inquest hears<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Wrightson from Northumberland had been descending a precarious road from French ski resort Alpe d\u2019Huez when the brakes in his bus failedA heroic bus driver died in a \u201ccomplete inferno\u201d after deciding to drive straight into boulders on a narrow mountain road to try to save his passengers, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}