{"id":18472,"date":"2024-08-18T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=18472"},"modified":"2024-08-18T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:36:29","slug":"expectant-father-from-wells-county-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/expectant-father-from-wells-county-killed-in-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectant father from Wells County killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A crash in northwest Indiana between a vehicle and a semi truck left both drivers dead Tuesday in a tragic accident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials in Newton County report that Blaine Tonner and Wayne Heminger both died as a result of the crash, which happened near the stone quarry on US 24, just east of Kentland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heminger, 73 years old from neighboring Goodland, reportedly failed to yield at an intersection at County Road 50 E and 1550 S, forcing the semi truck off the road, where it caught fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of the semi truck, Tonner, was pronounced dead at the scene. Heminger later died at a local hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blaine Tonner was a recent graduate of Southern Wells High School. His obituary can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/blaine-tonner\/\">here<\/a>. Recently married, Tonner and his wife were expecting their first child in February. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crash in northwest Indiana between a vehicle and a semi truck left both drivers dead Tuesday in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-18472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wzbd-police-scanner.jpg?fit=456%2C456&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}