{"id":638401,"date":"2025-12-17T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638401\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:45:16","slug":"appeal-for-driver-to-come-forward-after-calcot-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638401\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for driver to come forward after Calcot fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A potential witness to a collision that killed a 64-year-old father as he crossed a road has been urged to come forward by police. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen Allen, 64, was on his routine morning walk when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c997xvrgj29o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck in Bath Road in Calcot, near the Lidl supermarket<\/a>, by at least one vehicle at about 06:30 GMT on 26 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men, both from Reading, have been arrested in connection with Mr Allen&#8217;s death, with one bailed and the other released pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sgt Matt Cadmore, from Thames Valley Police, said: &#8220;I&#8217;d like to stress, I believe this driver to be a witness, and I would urge them to contact [officers] as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential witness to a collision that killed a 64-year-old father as he crossed a road has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-638401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115735686269830890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638401","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=638401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}