{"id":1021107,"date":"2026-08-24T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021107\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:15:18","slug":"man-not-in-crosswalk-struck-killed-by-vehicle-in-east-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021107\/","title":{"rendered":"Man not in crosswalk struck, killed by vehicle in east Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Investigators say a man has died after he was struck by a car in east Phoenix late Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Just before midnight, officers were called to the crash involving a pedestrian near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/i8v334rfjyVpZPdK8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/i8v334rfjyVpZPdK8\">48th and Van Buren streets<\/a>. Emergency crews found a man, identified as 44-year-old Sharmarke Ismail, seriously injured and lying in the road. Ismail was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Police believe that Ismail was hit by the vehicle while attempting to cross 48th Street outside of a marked crosswalk. Authorities say the driver involved stayed at the scene and was not impaired at the time of the collision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The crash investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Investigators say a man has died after he was struck by a car in east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[408593,408594,5229,5643,1587,7182,17806,408592,408591,50,1589,7183,17042,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1021107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-48th-st-van-buren-car-ped","tag-48th-st-van-buren-deadly-car-ped","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-deadly-crash","tag-deadly-pedestrian-collision","tag-deadly-pedestrian-crash","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-phoenix-police","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117150910594580279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}