{"id":26855,"date":"2019-07-25T08:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26855"},"modified":"2019-07-25T08:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:57:06","slug":"usps-contractor-tractor-trailer-hits-cars-house-in-meriden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/07\/25\/usps-contractor-tractor-trailer-hits-cars-house-in-meriden\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Contractor Tractor-Trailer Hits Cars, House in Meriden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=512895952&#038;videoID=l2FEyCCfMSAt&#038;origin=nbcconnecticut.com&#038;sec=news&#038;subsec=local&#038;fullWidth=y\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A tractor-trailer carrying mail crashed into several parked cars and a home on Preston Avenue in Meriden Thursday morning and the family is displaced until the home can be repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the tractor-trailer hit a van, an SUV and a truck before hitting a home and pushing a tree through a bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner said, fortunately, his daughter who sleeps in the bedroom the tree went through was not home when the crash happened, around 4:15 a.m., because she was at work on an overnight shift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounded like a bomb going off. The house shook,\u201d Aldo Signorello said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local\/Tractor-Trailer-Hits-House-in-Meriden-512877201.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26856\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tractor-trailer-plows-into-home.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tractor-trailer-plows-into-home.jpg 452w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tractor-trailer-plows-into-home-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tractor-trailer-plows-into-home-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tractor-trailer carrying mail crashed into several parked cars and a home on Preston Avenue in Meriden Thursday morning and the family is displaced until the home can be repaired. Officials said the tractor-trailer hit a van, an SUV and a truck before hitting a home and pushing a tree through a bedroom. The homeowner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26857,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26855\/revisions\/26857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}