{"id":82351,"date":"2019-12-23T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=82351"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:25:33","slug":"one-car-wreck-leads-to-fatality-on-south-lamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/one-car-wreck-leads-to-fatality-on-south-lamar\/","title":{"rendered":"One Car Wreck Leads to Fatality on South Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday, December 23, 2019, at approximately 3:00 am, officers with the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> responded to a one vehicle crash at the intersection of South Lamar Boulevard and Johnson Avenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle traveled across traffic and struck a tree head on. Officers arrived on scene and found the driver, <strong>Benjamin Ferguson<\/strong> (42 of <strong>Ashland, MS<\/strong>), entrapped inside the car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Oxford Fire Department<\/strong> arrived and was able to extricate Ferguson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite live-saving measures by medical personnel, Ferguson died from injuries sustained in the wreck at Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the wreck is still under investigation at this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, December 23, 2019, at approximately 3:00 am, officers with the Oxford Police Department responded to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":82352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[15750,15749,4,10442,2092,15751],"class_list":["post-82351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-asland","tag-benjamin-ferguson","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-fire-department","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-vehicle-crash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FatalCrash.jpg?fit=986%2C555&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}