{"id":3931,"date":"2012-02-24T03:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2012-02-24T03:09:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:09:39","slug":"3-kids-hit-by-cars-in-separate-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/3-kids-hit-by-cars-in-separate-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"3 kids hit by cars in separate incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns116785.jpg\" alt=\"Medics attend to an 11-year-old boy who was struck by a car soon after getting down from a school bus and crossing Middle Road in As Mahetog Wednesday afternoon. The boy was taken to the hospital with fractured legs. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 Three minors were injured after being struck by vehicles in separate incidents while crossing Middle Road in As Mahetog and Garapan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police officer Jason Tarkong confirmed that three children were injured in the two accidents, including a student who had just gotten down from a school bus near the road going to the Saipan Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Tarkong said he will be preparing a press release about the incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune learned that, in the As Mahetog accident, the legs of an 11-year-old boy were fractured. He was taken to the Commonwealth Health Center.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was among the passengers of a Public School System bus that had just come from Tanapag. As the bus stopped across a bus stop on a road leading to the Saipan Zoo, students began crossing Middle Road. A car struck the boy, a fifth grade student.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear whether the vehicle was going toward Tanapag or to the Puerto Rico area.<\/p>\n<p>The bus stop is located along a curve in the road.<\/p>\n<p>In the second accident, two children sustained minor injuries when a vehicle hit them as they were crossing Middle Road near the museum in Garapan. No other details were available as of press time yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter \u00a0 Three minors were injured after being struck by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}