{"id":1035980,"date":"2026-09-01T01:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1035980\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:05:27","slug":"man-chased-into-roadway-hit-by-alleged-impaired-driver-in-phoenix-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1035980\/","title":{"rendered":"Man chased into roadway, hit by alleged impaired driver in Phoenix dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/08\/23\/man-chased-into-phoenix-street-hit-by-car-unusual-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/08\/23\/man-chased-into-phoenix-street-hit-by-car-unusual-incident\/\">arguing with a woman before being chased into the road<\/a> and hit by a car has died, officials with the Phoenix Police Department said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Aug. 22, around 11 p.m., first responders were called to reports that a person had been hit by a car near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/FahQ7c6ipGKo5Qiv9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/FahQ7c6ipGKo5Qiv9\" target=\"_blank\">28th and Peoria avenues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers arrived, they found a man, identified as Gregory Jones, 53, with life-threatening injuries, according to the Phoenix Police Department. He was taken to the hospital in extremely critical condition, where he died on Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said Jones had been arguing with a woman before the crash, and witnesses were chasing him when he ran into the roadway and was hit by the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the driver, another man, initially left the scene but returned a few minutes later. Investigators believe he was impaired at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is 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 A man who was arguing with a woman before being chased into the road and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,414549,149679,414550,178318,414548,1589,7183,11311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1035980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-deadly-pedestrian-crash-phoenix","tag-dui-crash","tag-man-chased-into-road","tag-man-hit-by-car","tag-man-hit-by-car-dies","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-phoenix-police-department","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117193102216486313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035980","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=1035980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}