{"id":7181,"date":"2011-12-05T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2011-12-05T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:30:34","slug":"van-driver-falls-asleep-slams-into-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/van-driver-falls-asleep-slams-into-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Van driver falls asleep, slams into tree"},"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\/issx9999ns114733.jpg\" alt=\"Paramedics treat Edwin Sta. Theresa of his injuries when a van he was driving slammed into a pine tree and fell sideways along Beach Road, Chalan Laulau Saturday morning. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 A man who had just checked out of the hospital was injured when he fell asleep and a van he was driving slammed into a tree along the side of Beach Road in Chalan Laulau Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Sta. Theresa, production manager of Digital Motion, sustained bruises and lacerations on his left arm. Paramedics treated him at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Sta. Theresa was driving south aboard a Toyota Previa van along Beach Road when the accident happened around 8:10am near Triple J Motors.<\/p>\n<p>The van swerved to the right, slammed into a big pine tree, then fell on its left side on the shoulder of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Sta. Theresa managed to get down from the van and sat on the pathway. Passersby immediately called 911.<\/p>\n<p>After a few minutes, paramedics and police officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Sta. Theresa told paramedics and police officers that he had just come out from the Commonwealth Health Center where he was treated for stomach cramps.<\/p>\n<p>He said he fell asleep while driving the van, causing the mishap.<\/p>\n<p>After being treated at the scene, Saipan Tribune saw Sta. Theresa holding his bloodied left arm while watching a truck tow away the van.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear whether Sta. Theresa went back to CHC for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The van had extensive damage on the front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter \u00a0 A man who had just checked out of&#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-7181","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\/7181","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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}