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The incident occurred on Tuesday, 13 October, when officers were heading to a suspected indecent exposure case in Newport. The police vehicle collided with another vehicle before going through the pier's railings."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Firefighters freed two people who were trapped in a vehicle following the crash; they were uninjured. Emergency services, including ambulance and coastguard crews, attended the scene. Experts were sent to assess the structural safety of the pier, which was closed to vehicles and pedestrians. The Wightlink catamaran service between Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier Head was suspended."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A 29-year-old man from Ryde was arrested on suspicion of exposure and taken into police custody. A spokesperson for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary confirmed officers were conducting urgent inquiries related to an indecent exposure incident in Wallace Court, Newport, when the crash happened."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on who was in the crashed vehicle"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Independent reported that firefighters freed two people trapped in a vehicle after the crash and they were uninjured. The Daily Echo stated that crews from Ryde and Shanklin fire stations worked to free two police officers from the vehicle."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the centre-rated digests mention that experts were sent to assess the structural safety of the pier, a detail included in The Independent's full report. 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