{"id":40788,"date":"2022-06-28T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=40788"},"modified":"2022-06-28T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T07:20:43","slug":"eight-year-old-boy-hit-by-ball-bearing-at-potterne-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2022\/06\/eight-year-old-boy-hit-by-ball-bearing-at-potterne-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight year old boy hit by ball bearing at Potterne Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-year-old boy has been injured by a ball bearing at Potterne Park in Verwood.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward following the incident which happened at around 7pm on Monday 20th June.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was in Potterne Park with his family when he was hit on his lower back, sustaining minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police Constable Kelly Cole, of East Dorset police, said: \u201cThankfully the victim did not sustain serious injuries, however, there could have been serious consequences and this type of dangerous behaviour will simply not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investigation is underway and I am appealing to anyone who was in the park at the time and witnessed what happened to please get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Anyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk\/contact, via email 101@dorset.pnn.police.uk or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55220098717. Alternatively, independent charity Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously online at Crimestoppers-uk.org or by calling Freephone 0800 555 111.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-year-old boy has been injured by a ball bearing at Potterne Park in Verwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-40788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-potterne-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40789,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40788\/revisions\/40789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}