{"id":6738,"date":"2010-07-02T08:28:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2010-07-02T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T12:28:16","slug":"lehto-claims-no-memory-of-fatal-boat-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lehto-claims-no-memory-of-fatal-boat-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehto claims no memory of fatal boat crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after a boat crash in his native Finland, former F1 driver JJ Lehto has told police he has no memory of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old, who drove for teams including Sauber and Benetton until 1994 and is now a commentator, was one of the two occupants of a speed boat that struck a bridge pillar at 4am in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>His friend did not survive, but Lehto managed to swim ashore with head injuries and broken ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Finnish reports said Lehto failed an alcohol breath test, and police suspect he might be guilty of other offences, including speeding in the narrow channel.<\/p>\n<p>But a police superintendent said two weeks ago that Lehto could not be interviewed because he was &#8220;strongly medicated&#8221; while recovering from his injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>And according to Turun Sanomat newspaper, Lehto has now told police that he cannot remember the crash, or the events leading up to it.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after a boat crash in his native Finland, former F1 driver JJ Lehto has told police he has no memory of the incident. The 44-year-old, who drove for teams including Sauber and Benetton until 1994 and is now a commentator, was one of the two occupants of a speed boat that struck a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,1700],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6739,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}