{"id":476663,"date":"2025-12-28T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476663\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:55:13","slug":"pedestrian-killed-by-suspected-drunken-driver-in-phoenix-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476663\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed by suspected drunken driver in Phoenix, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A suspected impaired driver struck and killed a pedestrian in northwest Phoenix, according to the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Around 11 p.m. on Dec. 26, officers responded to the collision near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/N+36th+Ave+%26+W+Northern+Ave,+Phoenix,+AZ+85051\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b6c838cad7307:0x81500bfa98d32583?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>36th Avenue and Northern Avenue, <\/strong><\/a>regarding a pedestrian who had been hit by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to preliminary investigation, the man was not using a crosswalk while crossing Northern Avenue, not when he was struck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The man was found in critical condition, but was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators suspect that impairment was a factor in the crash. The driver of the involved vehicle, who was identified at the scene, was taken to be processed for DUI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police have not released the driver&#8217;s identity, or what charges, if any, they could be facing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This remains an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/N+36th+Ave+%26+W+Northern+Ave,+Phoenix,+AZ+85051\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b6c838cad7307:0x81500bfa98d32583?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Map of the collision location.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; A suspected impaired driver struck and killed a pedestrian in northwest Phoenix, according to the Phoenix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-476663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115796124053897113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476663","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=476663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}