{"id":255622,"date":"2017-07-04T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=255622"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:06:12","slug":"tree-branch-falls-trailer-causes-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tree-branch-falls-trailer-causes-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree branch falls on trailer, causes traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255623\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Ferdie-trailer7-3-17.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-255623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Ferdie-trailer7-3-17-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office crew cut the branch of a flame tree that fell into a tractor-trailer with a 40-foot container of Best Sunshine near Triple J Motors along Beach Road in Chalan Laulau yesterday afternoon. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-255623\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office crew cut the branch of a flame tree that fell into a tractor-trailer with a 40-foot container of Best Sunshine near Triple J Motors along Beach Road in Chalan Laulau yesterday afternoon. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The top of a tractor-trailer with a 40-foot container of Best Sunshine accidentally brushed against a branch of a flame tree while its driver was backing up, causing the branch to fall on the trailer along Beach Road in Chalan Laulau yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer\u2019s roof had a big dent but the male driver was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune learned that the driver was backing up to enter into a compound of Best Sunshine next to Triple J Motors at about 3pm when the trailer top somehow hit the flame tree\u2019s branch. The branch broke from its base and crashed into the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>A construction worker said they were building a fence at the Best Sunshine compound when he saw the flame tree branch fall on the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The accident snarled traffic in the area for over an hour as the tree and the trailer blocked the road. Police re-routed the northbound vehicles to the Quartermaster Road as the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office crew cut the branch.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, a tractor-trailer with a 40-foot container of Best Sunshine accidentally dragged a Docomo Pacific cable wire along Chalan Pale Arnold Road and toppled a pole, triggering a power outage in Tanapag. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top of a tractor-trailer with a 40-foot container of Best Sunshine accidentally brushed against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":255623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[160,988,2970,5883],"class_list":["post-255622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-beach-road","tag-best-sunshine","tag-chalan-laulau","tag-last-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}