{"id":23149,"date":"2022-05-26T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23149"},"modified":"2022-05-26T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:04:47","slug":"nhl-legend-kia-ev6-hit-tram-euroncap-awards-it-5-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23149","title":{"rendered":"NHL Legend’s Kia EV6 Hit By Tram As Euro NCAP Awards It Five Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

NHL legend Jaromir Jagr was involved in a serious crash yesterday on the streets of Prague, Czechia, while driving his brand-new Kia EV6.<\/p>\n

The 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cup champion was trying to cross the busy Plze\u0148sk\u00e1\u00a0four-lane street but failed to notice a tram approaching at high speed from his left. The streetcar smashed into the Kia EV6<\/a>‘s driver’s door, destroying it completely and triggering the side curtain airbag.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the 50-year-old athlete, who still plays competitive hockey in his home country, emerged without serious injuries from the crash and no one riding the tram was hurt either.<\/p>\n

Looking at the driver’s door of the EV6, it’s amazing that Jagr walked away unharmed. The electric crossover received five stars in Euro NCAP crash testing and, in a strange coincidence, the result was announced on May 25, the same day Jagr had his crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Despite emerging unscathed from the crash, the experience left him shaken. “I thought it was my end,<\/em>” he confessed in a post on social media in which he took full responsibility for the crash. Here’s how he explained what happened on his Instagram, where he also included a photo of his crashed Kia EV6<\/a> (machine translated from Czech).<\/p>\n

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“Dear fans, and everyone else. I would just like to tell you briefly what happened today when I was involved in the accident. It was my mistake.<\/p>\n

On Plze\u0148sk\u00e1, I tried to cross from one direction to another. I checked the other side and drove into it at the right time. But there was a lot of traffic and I didn’t have time to react to the tram, which was going at high speed in the same direction as me. I noticed it half a meter in front of me, at the last minute. I thought it was my end.<\/p>\n

I have always believed that force majeure has a hand over me, and today I have seen it again. Thank God!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He added that the Kia<\/a> saved his life and he wanted to move on from the “sad event,<\/em>” thanking everyone who intervened at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Czech news website Blesk<\/em>,\u00a0Jagr slightly injured one of his hands and was seen limping while leaving the ambulance.\u00a0However, he declined a ride to the hospital. Local police performed a breathalyzer test on the spot and the result came back negative.<\/p>\n

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NHL legend Jaromir Jagr was involved in a serious crash yesterday on the streets of Prague, Czechia, while driving his brand-new Kia EV6. The 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cup champion was trying to cross the busy Plze\u0148sk\u00e1\u00a0four-lane street but failed to notice a tram approaching at high speed from his left. The streetcar smashed into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}