{"id":611672,"date":"2025-12-04T12:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:54:12","slug":"victim-of-glasgow-hit-and-run-was-just-26-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611672\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of Glasgow &#8216;hit and run&#8217; was just 26-years-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Emergency services were called to Castlebank Street at around 8.45pm on December 3 after a woman was allegedly struck by a car at a crossing island near the entrance to Burger King and Starbucks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Images by Mark Gibson (Image: Images by Mark Gibson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She was rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/queen-elizabeth-university-hospital\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth University Hospital<\/a> but was pronounced dead a short time after arrival.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her family have now been informed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>null (Image: Image by Mark Gibson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We previously reported that police said the car left the scene prior to their arrival. However, it was later traced and a 49-year-old man was arrested in connection with the alleged incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cops have now said that the man has been released pending further enquiries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>null (Image: Image by Mark Gibson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes after the road was closed for more than 12 hours to allow enquiries to be carried out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pictures taken from the scene showed officers in a line, with blue and purple gloves on, looking on the road as well as surrounding areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/police-scotland\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: &#8220;A 49-year-old man arrested in connection with a fatal crash on Castlebank Street in Glasgow has been released pending further enquiries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The crash happened around 8.45pm on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at a crossing island near to the entrance for Burger King and Starbucks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The 26-year-old female pedestrian was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital but pronounced dead a short time after arrival.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Her family have been informed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Enquiries are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were called to Castlebank Street at around 8.45pm on December 3 after a woman was allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-611672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115661403793701890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611672","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=611672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}