{"id":39791,"date":"2021-03-01T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39791"},"modified":"2021-03-01T10:16:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T10:16:43","slug":"tigers-great-hospitalised-after-head-on-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39791","title":{"rendered":"Tigers great hospitalised after &#039;head-on collision&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond Tigers great Royce Hart has been hospitalised following a car crash in Hobart on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hart was involved in a head-on collision on the East Derwent Highway, as first reported by 7News. <\/p>\n<p>Tasmania Police confirmed in a statement that Hart and the passenger in his vehicle were taken to hospital with &quot;non life threatening&quot; injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A red Hyundai hatch travelling north on the Huon Highway collided head on with a silver Nissan X-Trail which was travelling south on the Huon Highway,&quot; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"39e8dc78-21ad-4fca-9896-b93e1617c41d\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/39e8dc78-21ad-4fca-9896-b93e1617c41d\" alt=\"Royce Hart of the Tigers holds the 1974 trophy after the VFL Grand Final. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Both vehicles were extensively damaged as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The driver and sole occupant of the Hyundai, a 77-year-old woman from Mountain River, had to be cut free from her vehicle and was transported to the Royal Hobart Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Huon Highway was closed for about four hours while the scene was cleared.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stevo7AFL\/status\/1366238408234864643\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stevo7AFL\/status\/1366238408234864643<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In total, Hart played 187 games for Richmond between 1967 and 1977, scoring 369 goals.<\/p>\n<p>He won four VFL premierships with the Tigers, including two as captain in 1973 and 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old was named in the AFL Team of the Century and inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Richmond Tigers great Royce Hart has been hospitalised following a car crash in Hobart on Sunday. Hart was involved in a head-on collision on the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39791\" title=\"Tigers great hospitalised after &#039;head-on collision&#039;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39793,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39791\/revisions\/39793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}