{"id":38411,"date":"2025-07-02T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/deadly-crash-near-mcdowell-rutherford-line-3-killed-1-critical-on-highway-221\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:00:43","slug":"deadly-crash-near-mcdowell-rutherford-line-3-killed-1-critical-on-highway-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/deadly-crash-near-mcdowell-rutherford-line-3-killed-1-critical-on-highway-221\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Crash Near McDowell-Rutherford Line | 3 Killed, 1 Critical on Highway 221"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pcrI1RMtcdw?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Breaking News: Three people were killed and one person critically injured in a serious crash near the McDowell and Rutherford County line.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened on Highway 221 South just before 8 PM last night. First responders say three victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth person was airlifted to a trauma center in Asheville and remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was shut down for nearly three hours as investigators worked to determine what caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with us for updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking News: Three people were killed and one person critically injured in a serious crash near the McDowell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}