{"id":724339,"date":"2026-04-13T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/724339\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:00:30","slug":"pedestrian-in-wheelchair-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-central-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/724339\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian in wheelchair dies after being hit by car in central Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A man is dead after being hit by a car in central Phoenix Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just after 7:30 p.m., officers responded to the area of 25th and Roosevelt streets for reports of a crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When police got to the scene, they found a man in a wheelchair who was seriously hurt. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died three days later on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Preliminary information suggests the man in the wheelchair entered the road and may have been impaired. Police said the driver of the car tried to avoid the man but was unable to. The driver did not show any signs of impairment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man\u2019s identity has not been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the investigation remains ongoing and any potential charges will be determined when it is complete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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\">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 is dead after being hit by a car in central Phoenix Thursday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[300210,5229,5643,1587,7182,300212,300211,23850,1589,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-724339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-25th-st-roosevelt-car-ped","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-azfamily","13":"tag-crash-near-sky-harbor","14":"tag-man-in-wheelchair-hit-by-car","15":"tag-pedestrian-crash","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-phoenix-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116395876542020149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724339","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=724339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724339\/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=724339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}