{"id":782181,"date":"2026-05-08T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:12:16","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-south-phoenix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782181\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash in south Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A man is dead after he was hit by a driver who fled the scene overnight in south Phoenix. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The crash happened around 10 p.m. Thursday near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/2hBCzitvoebCg3Yj9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/2hBCzitvoebCg3Yj9\">7th and Ellwood streets<\/a>, north of Broadway Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Officers got to the scene and found the man with serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. He has not been publicly identified. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Police respond to a deadly pedestrian crash near 7th and Ellwood streets.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2XA2LYP73NB2NKD3AWNFX4D2AM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"515\" \/>Police respond to a deadly pedestrian crash near 7th and Ellwood streets.(AZFamily)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The driver involved in the crash fled the area before police arrived. No suspect vehicle information has been provided. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Detectives responded to investigate what led to the crash. That investigation has now been completed, with the area reopened. <\/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 is dead after he was hit by a driver who fled the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[320069,320068,320066,5229,5643,1587,7182,5417,88106,1589,320067,7183,161064,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-782181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-7th-st-and-ellwood","9":"tag-7th-st-crash","10":"tag-7th-st-pedestrian-crash","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-arizona","13":"tag-az","14":"tag-azfamily","15":"tag-hit-and-run","16":"tag-person-hit-by-car","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-phoenix-crashes","19":"tag-phoenix-news","20":"tag-phoenix-pedestrian-crash","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116539605076463614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782181","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=782181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}