{"id":645550,"date":"2025-12-21T04:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645550\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:31:23","slug":"a-very-loved-gentleman-tributes-pour-in-for-sheffield-wednesday-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645550\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A very loved gentleman&#8217; &#8211; Tributes pour in for Sheffield Wednesday fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Smith died after he was hit by a lorry in November<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_William-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"William Smith died aged 63\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>William Smith died aged 63(Image: SYP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Tributes have poured in for a loving father and grandfather after he was hit and killed by a lorry in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/sheffield\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Sheffield<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">William Smith, 63, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/sheffield-lorry-crash-claims-life-32838768\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">was killed when he was hit by a white Iveco lorry on Manchester Road in the Stocksbridge area of Sheffield<\/a> on November 8. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene after police were called at 12.11am that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">His family have now paid tribute to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/sheffield-wednesday-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> fan William. A statement read: &#8220;William Smith was a very loved gentleman who would do anything for anyone and will be very much missed by his children, grandchildren and all his family and friends. WAWAW [We&#8217;re all Wednesday, aren&#8217;t we?]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/south-yorkshire-police\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">South Yorkshire Police<\/a> said their investigation into the fatal collision remains ongoing and have urged anyone with relevant dashcam or CCTV footage to come forward. A spokesperson for the force said the lorry driver remained at the scene and was helping the police with their enquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get all the latest and breaking Sheffield news straight to your inbox by <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=11e3a255-9202-43b5-8471-cfbf02dcd578&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">signing up to our newsletter here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Smith died after he was hit by a lorry in NovemberWilliam Smith died aged 63(Image: SYP) Tributes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,10381,59157,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-sheffield-wednesday-fc","13":"tag-south-yorkshire-police","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755686954707646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645550","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=645550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}