{"id":291366,"date":"2019-01-07T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=291366"},"modified":"2019-01-07T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:06:30","slug":"van-hits-bicyclist-near-pedestrian-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/van-hits-bicyclist-near-pedestrian-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Van hits bicyclist near pedestrian lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_291367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291367\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Crash-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Crash-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-291367\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency medical technicians check the injuries on the shoulder of an employee of Imperial Pacific who was hit by a Toyota Sienna van while crossing a pedestrian lane on a bicycle along Chalan Pale Arnold Road in Gualo Rai Saturday morning. At right is the van\u2019s driver. Police are still investigating the incident. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A man on a bicycle was injured when a van hit him as he was crossing a pedestrian lane along Chalan Pale Arnold Road or Middle Road in Gualo Rai Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, a Filipino employee of Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC, suffered bruises on the right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>A Korean man was the driver of the van\u2014a Toyota Sienna with license plate ACK 373. He was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>When traffic officers arrived at the scene, the bicyclist was already inside the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services ambulance on the way to the Commonwealth Health Center.<\/p>\n<p>There was no available information yet as to who was found at fault.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune learned from witnesses that the bicyclist had just come from a laundry shop and had crossed the pedestrian lane on his bicycle on his way home at about 8:30am.<\/p>\n<p>As soon he reached the shoulder side of the outside northbound lane, the Toyota Sienna that had just come from the parking lot of a hardware store next to Chong\u2019s Air-Conditioning &amp; Refrigeration struck him.<\/p>\n<p>When the van stopped, about a foot of its bumper was on the outside inner lane of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the van was a customer of the hardware. The van and the bicycle had minor damage.<\/p>\n<p>DFEMS emergency medical technicians responded, treated the victim, then brought him to CHC.<br \/>\nThe scene is an accident-prone area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man on a bicycle was injured when a van hit him as he was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":291367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291366","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=291366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}