{"id":11894,"date":"2024-09-20T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/two-year-old-boy-dies-after-tv-falls-on-him-in-wigan-home\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:36:40","slug":"two-year-old-boy-dies-after-tv-falls-on-him-in-wigan-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/two-year-old-boy-dies-after-tv-falls-on-him-in-wigan-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year-old boy dies after TV falls on him in Wigan home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A two-year-old boy has died after a TV fell at his home in what is believed to have been a \u201ctragic accident\u201d, police have said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Carter Walsh was rushed to hospital after he was injured in Fisher Close, Wigan, at about 14:15 BST on Thursday, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He later died despite treatment from medics.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A GMP spokesman said they were still examining the circumstances but believed it was \u201ca tragic accident with nothing suspicious\u201d.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It is believed the TV dislodged before falling and that a fireplace was also involved.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">More than \u00a31,000 has been raised via a Gofundme page in the toddler&#8217;s memory.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c7815280vz7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year-old boy has died after a TV fell at his home in what is believed to have been a \u201ctragic accident\u201d, police have said. Carter Walsh was rushed to hospital after he was injured in Fisher Close, Wigan, at about 14:15 BST on Thursday, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said. He later died despite treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[2810,1017,541,257,5518,5519],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-boy","tag-dies","tag-falls","tag-home","tag-twoyearold","tag-wigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}