{"id":2391443,"date":"2025-01-16T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vehicle-plummets-into-potomac-after-arlington-memorial-bridge-crash-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:57:41","slug":"vehicle-plummets-into-potomac-after-arlington-memorial-bridge-crash-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vehicle-plummets-into-potomac-after-arlington-memorial-bridge-crash-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle plummets into Potomac after Arlington Memorial Bridge crash &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvehicle-plummets-into-potomac-after-arlington-memorial-bridge-crash-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2391443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text appears to be a \u2063snippet of HTML code that includes a button labeled &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; and some XML \u200bencoding. 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The bridge was closed for a crash investigation, according to U.S. Park Police; the driver of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-speed-chase-involving-kidnapping-suspect-five-year-old-ends-in-tragedy\/\" title=\"High-Speed Chase Involving Kidnapping Suspect, Five-Year-Old Ends In Tragedy\">submerged vehicle<\/a> was brought to shore and received advanced life support on the way to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue personnel used boats and divers to reach the person in the water. However, due to the snow and darkness, authorities said they left the vehicle in the river and would return on Friday to try and extricate it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update vehicle into water Arlington Memorial Bridge. 1 individual from submerged vehicle brought to shore &amp; receiving advanced life support. 2nd vehicle involved on bridge &amp; 2 patients transported with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-motorcycle-deputy-killed-in-collision\/\" title=\"Los Angeles motorcycle deputy killed in collision\">minor injuries<\/a>. Joint effort with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCPoliceDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DCPoliceDept<\/a> Harbor Unit &amp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KhdLQCx4t3\">pic.twitter.com\/KhdLQCx4t3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DC Fire and EMS Department (@dcfireems) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcfireems\/status\/1880064520250618039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>District of Columbia Fire and EMS later <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dcfireems\/status\/1880064520250618039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">posted<\/a> on social media that the second vehicle involved in the accident stayed on the bridge and both occupants suffered minor injuries. One of them was brought to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Park Police is leading a criminal investigation into the crash, <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/arlington\/2025\/01\/vehicle-plunges-into-potomac-river-after-crash-at-arlington-memorial-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">per<\/a> WTOP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1937334\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1937334\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle falls into Potomac after crash on Arlington Bridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2391444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Arlington-Memorial-Bridge.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[48648,48647,38067,48646,32076],"class_list":["post-2391443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arlington-memorial-bridge","tag-potomac-river","tag-traffic-accident","tag-vehicle-crash","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Arlington-Memorial-Bridge.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391447,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391443\/revisions\/2391447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}