{"id":27828,"date":"2012-01-17T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27828"},"modified":"2012-01-17T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:37:48","slug":"austrailian-skateboarder-dead-after-towing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27828","title":{"rendered":"Austrailian Skateboarder Dead After Towing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/663425-lachlan.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/663425-lachlan.jpg','popup','width=316,height=421,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/663425-lachlan-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"663425-Lachlan\" \/><\/a><strong>Lachlan Burgess<\/strong>, a 17-year-old Australian skateboarder is now dead after falling while <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=%22skateboard+towing%22\" target=\"_blank\">skateboard towing<\/a><\/strong> behind his friend&#8217;s car in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales on Monday, January 16, 2012, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/top-stories\/skateboarder-17-dies-after-towed-by-car\/story-e6frfkp9-1226246003707\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police said Lachy fell from his skateboard about halfway down Plunkett Drive, impacting heavily with the road. He suffered major head injuries and sadly died at the scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordermail.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/skateboard-death-may-be-on-video\/2423414.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Border Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong> several of Burgess&#8217; friends phone were confiscated by police because the crash may have been caught on video. Burgess&#8217; friend who was driving the car has been charged with &#8220;manslaughter and dangerous driving occasioning death.&#8221; Another sad reminder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/top-stories\/skateboarder-17-dies-after-towed-by-car\/story-e6frfkp9-1226246003707\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordermail.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/skateboard-death-may-be-on-video\/2423414.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Border Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lachlan Burgess, a 17-year-old Australian skateboarder is now dead after falling while skateboard towing behind his friend&#8217;s car in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales on Monday, January 16, 2012, according to a story on News.com.au. Police said Lachy fell from his skateboard about halfway down Plunkett Drive, impacting heavily with the road. He suffered major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27831,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828\/revisions\/27831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}