{"id":59216,"date":"2026-08-22T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/video-appears-to-show-police-chase-minutes-before-fatal-a66-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:25:47","slug":"video-appears-to-show-police-chase-minutes-before-fatal-a66-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/video-appears-to-show-police-chase-minutes-before-fatal-a66-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Video appears to show police chase minutes before fatal A66 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Security camera footage appears to show several police vehicles chasing a car just minutes before a fatal crash that killed seven people, including two police officers, near Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The clip is thought to have been filmed on Lime Road at 03:36 BST on Saturday morning, around three minutes before a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way on the A66 nearby collided into a marked police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The police car involved in the crash was not part of the pursuit, the BBC understands<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> A police source said the chase had been abandoned before the collision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c4gxgpqzdz6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security camera footage appears to show several police vehicles chasing a car just minutes before a fatal crash that killed seven people, including two police officers, near Middlesbrough. The clip is thought to have been filmed on Lime Road at 03:36 BST on Saturday morning, around three minutes before a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[16415,2692,10455,327,1926,4885,599,1116,1264],"class_list":["post-59216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-a66","tag-appears","tag-chase","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-minutes","tag-police","tag-show","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59216","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=59216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59218,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59216\/revisions\/59218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}