{"id":368877,"date":"2025-08-24T04:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368877\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T04:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:10:13","slug":"man-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-west-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368877\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being hit by car in west Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>police appeal\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_medium sw-1d70522a_marginbottom4 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The man has been named as Jim (James) McKee from the Grosvenor Road area\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police have appealed for witnesses (PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2.43913168.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_caption1 sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom3 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop3 sw-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-70)\">Police have appealed for witnesses (PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom0 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">An 81-year-old man has died after he was hit by a car in west Belfast on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">The man has been named by the PSNI as Jim (James) McKee from the Grosvenor Road area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">Inspector Cherith Adair of the PSNI\u2019s Collision Investigation Unit said: \u201cShortly after 11.20am, we received a report regarding a pedestrian involved in a collision with an Audi vehicle in the Genoa Street area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police have appealed for witnesses (PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2.43913168.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_caption1 sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom3 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop3 sw-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-70)\">Police have appealed for witnesses (PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_caption1 sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom3 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop3 sw-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-70)\">Today&#8217;s News in 90 Seconds &#8211; August 23rd <\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">\u201cOur officers attended with other emergency partners and provided medical assistance. However, the man sadly passed away at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">\u201cInquiries are continuing and anyone who witnessed the collision or with CCTV or other footage which could assist is asked to contact Collision Investigation Unit detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">The PSNI said Distillery Street has reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"police appeal\u00a0|\u00a0 The man has been named as Jim (James) McKee from the Grosvenor Road area Police have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115081788744651395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368877","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=368877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}