{"id":24492,"date":"2017-01-08T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/crash-of-trucks-on-palmer-wasilla-highway-injures-driver\/"},"modified":"2017-01-08T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T17:01:27","slug":"crash-of-trucks-on-palmer-wasilla-highway-injures-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/crash-of-trucks-on-palmer-wasilla-highway-injures-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash of trucks on Palmer-Wasilla Highway injures driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASILLA \u2014 <\/strong>Alaska State Troopers have released details of a traffic crash on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway that critically injured a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said 27-year-old Virgil Rodgers of Palmer just before 7 a.m. Wednesday was driving a tow truck in front of a business, Diversified Tire, when his tire hit snow on the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>He lost control, crossed the centerline and hit a pickup nearly head on.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the pickup was 65-year-old Betty Hein of Wasilla. She was rushed to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers was not injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASILLA \u2014 Alaska State Troopers have released details of a traffic crash on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway that critically injured a woman. Troopers said 27-year-old Virgil Rodgers of Palmer just before 7 a.m. Wednesday was driving a tow truck in front of a <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/business\/\">business<\/a>, Diversified Tire, when his tire hit snow on the shoulder. He lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24492"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}