{"id":10563,"date":"2026-06-13T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:15:00","slug":"unbelievable-incident-crane-hits-road-sign-on-kifissos-avenue-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10563","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievable incident: Crane hits road sign on Kifissos Avenue (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"187\">     In Kifissos, a crane on a truck struck a sign, shattering it, while a couple on a motorcycle miraculously avoided injury. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"422\">     An <b>incredible <\/b>traffic<b> accident<\/b> occurred on Saturday, June 13, on <strong data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"275\">Kifissos Avenue<\/strong>, in the lane heading toward <strong data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"303\">Piraeus<\/strong>, when a truck crane collided with an elevated <strong data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"366\">sign<\/strong>, causing parts of it to collapse onto the roadway. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"587\">     The <strong data-start=\"427\" data-end=\"453\">pieces of the sign<\/strong> fell onto the road while traffic was heavy, posing a serious danger to passing <strong data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"566\">drivers<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"586\">passengers<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@john_kak7\/video\/7650803868716043542\" data-video-id=\"7650803868716043542\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\">\n<section> @john_kak7 Those kids were lucky with the motorcycle. #acciden #athens #periferiaattikis #road #greece \u266c original audio &#8211; Ioannis Kakoulis <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"1jq43p0\" data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"627\">     Couple on a motorcycle miraculously escaped <\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"629\" data-end=\"951\">     Right behind the <strong data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"660\">truck<\/strong> was a <strong data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"696\">couple on a motorcycle<\/strong>, who were just a hair\u2019s breadth away from the point of impact. Despite debris falling onto the road, the <strong data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"836\">motorcycle rider<\/strong> managed to maintain his balance and avoid falling, resulting in no <strong data-start=\"934\" data-end=\"950\">injuries<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"1225\">     The incident was captured in a <strong data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"993\">video<\/strong> posted on social media. The footage shows the moment when the <strong data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1099\">crane<\/strong> hits the sign and drags it away, while drivers of nearby <strong data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1173\">vehicles<\/strong> slam on their brakes and drive away from the scene. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1459\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">     After the collision, the <strong data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1271\">truck driver<\/strong> veered to the right and stopped in the <strong data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1350\">Emergency Lane (EL)<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"1354\" data-end=\"1368\">Traffic<\/strong> was temporarily slowed down until the pieces of the sign were removed from the roadway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    In Kifissos, a truck&#8217;s crane struck a road sign, shattering it, while a couple on a motorcycle miraculously avoided injury.<\/p>\n<p>    A &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}