{"id":352495,"date":"2025-08-17T20:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352495\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:35:14","slug":"arrest-after-pedestrian-fatally-hit-by-car-in-streetly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352495\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after pedestrian fatally hit by car in Streetly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man has been arrested after an elderly pedestrian was fatally struck by a car in Sutton Coldfield.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crash, which involved a white Mercedes, happened in Thornhill Road, Streetly, where police found a man in his late 70s with fatal injuries, just before 18:00 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and drink-driving. He is being questioned in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midland Police said officers were working to establish the full circumstances and were particularly interested in speaking to the driver of a silver Range Rover who may have important information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after an elderly pedestrian was fatally struck by a car in Sutton Coldfield.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-352495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}