{"id":29740,"date":"2025-03-30T04:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T11:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/arrest-after-pedestrian-death-on-construction-site\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T04:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T11:14:20","slug":"arrest-after-pedestrian-death-on-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/arrest-after-pedestrian-death-on-construction-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after pedestrian death on construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-496334\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The accident happened last week during site preparation works for a new multi-storey car park for Wigan Infirmary.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Manchester Police told the <em>BBC<\/em> the man died at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services and a joint investigation involving police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been launched.<\/p>\n<p>A 58-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The HSE said: \u201cWe are aware of the incident and are working with police.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/03\/28\/arrest-after-pedestrian-death-on-construction-site\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The accident happened last week during site preparation works for a new multi-storey car park for Wigan Infirmary. Greater &#8230; <a title=\"Arrest after pedestrian death on construction site\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/arrest-after-pedestrian-death-on-construction-site\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arrest after pedestrian death on construction site\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}