{"id":223514,"date":"2025-06-11T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=223514"},"modified":"2025-06-11T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:14:14","slug":"carrollton-police-officer-hit-on-highway-27-near-ingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=223514","title":{"rendered":"Carrollton Police Officer Hit on Highway 27 Near Ingles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carrollton drivers are facing significant disruptions after a police officer was struck by a vehicle, leading to the complete closure of Highway 27 North at Ingles. The incident has prompted a major emergency response, and motorists are being advised to find alternative routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-map is-style-satellite\" data-map-style=\"satellite\" data-map-details=\"true\" data-points=\"[{&quot;placeTitle&quot;:&quot;North Park Street&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;North Park Street&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;1124 North Park Street, Carrollton, Georgia 30117, United States&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;address.8956621346242336&quot;,&quot;coordinates&quot;:{&quot;longitude&quot;:-85.080692,&quot;latitude&quot;:33.598966}}]\" data-zoom=\"14\" data-map-center=\"{&quot;lng&quot;:-85.080692,&quot;lat&quot;:33.598966}\" data-marker-color=\"red\" data-show-fullscreen-button=\"true\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/?api=1&amp;query=33.598966,-85.080692\">North Park Street<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea6 <strong>What&#8217;s Unfolding:<\/strong> The Carrollton Police Department reported that one of their officers was struck by a vehicle while directing traffic near the Ingles. Consequently, all northbound lanes of Highway 27 at that location were shut down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The injured officer was airlifted to an Atlanta-area hospital. The department later shared that, &#8220;Our officer is in serious, but stable condition,&#8221; and added, &#8220;Thank you for all of your prayers. We appreciate all of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f <strong>Navigating the Area:<\/strong> Authorities are urging the public to avoid the area completely to allow emergency crews to work efficiently and to prevent further traffic congestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=32]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrollton drivers are facing significant disruptions after a police officer was struck by a vehicle, leading to the complete closure of Highway 27 North at Ingles. The incident has prompted a major emergency response, and motorists are being advised to find alternative routes. \ud83d\udea6 What&#8217;s Unfolding: The Carrollton Police Department reported that one of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":223515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18045],"tags":[18184,9794],"class_list":["post-223514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-safety","tag-carrollton-police","tag-ingles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}