{"id":196994,"date":"2025-09-03T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/196994\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:08:18","slug":"la-metro-bus-operator-accidentally-hits-kills-pedestrian-who-was-lying-in-roadway-at-harbor-gateway-transit-center-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/196994\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Metro bus operator accidentally hits, kills pedestrian who was lying in roadway at Harbor Gateway Transit Center, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Los Angeles bus driver runs over man lying in roadway, killing him <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/df2c11730eaa110e2eb8dd3fd2566f65.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/video\/los-angeles-bus-driver-runs-over-man-lying-in-roadway-killing-him\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Los Angeles bus driver runs over man lying in roadway, killing him<\/p>\n<p>          01:29<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bus operator with the LA Metro hit and killed a pedestrian who was lying unconscious in the middle of the roadway late Tuesday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident was reported at the Harbor Gateway Transit Center in Gardena at about 11:24 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said a man was lying on the ground unconscious when he was run over by an MTA J Line bus. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The man is yet to be identified, police said. It&#8217;s not clear what led to him losing consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities speaking to CBS News Los Angeles called the situation an accident. It is not being investigated as a criminal incident.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediately made available.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/austin-turner\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin  Turner<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he worked at KTLA, the San Jose Mercury News, the Sedona Red Rock News and various other outlets as a freelance sports reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles bus driver runs over man lying in roadway, killing him Los Angeles bus driver runs over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-196994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115140762973029019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196994","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=196994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}