{"id":266136,"date":"2025-08-13T17:36:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=266136"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:36:36","slug":"elderly-man-dies-in-fatal-crash-with-truck-near-yass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=266136","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man dies in fatal crash with truck near Yass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man has died following a crash near Yass today.  This is a very sad outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another death on Australian roads due to our over-reliance and shameful addiction to Road Freight Transport disregarding the benefits of rail investment and costing the environment and Australians $billions each and every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about how Australia&#8217;s freight policy has been highjacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=railroaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Railroaded: Australia&#8217;s unsustainable obsession with road transport<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seemingly inexorable rise of road freight in Australia is not a triumph of efficiency; it\u2019s a symptom of a deeper malaise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about how Australia&#8217;s freight policy has been highjacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":265169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2996,47,7988],"tags":[5026,2139,17740],"class_list":["post-266136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crash","category-rail-news","category-trucking","tag-nsw","tag-sydney","tag-yass"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266138,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266136\/revisions\/266138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}