{"id":801149,"date":"2026-05-16T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801149\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:37:20","slug":"pedestrian-dead-after-alleged-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801149\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead after alleged hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man died early Saturday morning in what police described as a hit-and-run in west Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the area of the collision near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/TSZ5rHgvv69k3bea8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">50th Avenue and McDowell Road<\/a> around 3 a.m., according to the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The man was crossing midblock when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the vehicle that hit him did not remain at the scene, nor has it been located. It is believed to be a pickup truck, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police asked that anyone with information about the truck, or its driver\u2019s whereabouts, call <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/silent-witness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Silent Witness<\/a> at 480-948-6377 or 480-837-8446 for Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamdamonallred\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @iamdamonallred<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/man-hit-and-run-west-phoenix\/5865794\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" width=\"830\" height=\"100\" alt=\"newsletter sign up\" style=\"display:block;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%;height:auto;\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died early Saturday morning in what police described as a hit-and-run in west Phoenix. Officers arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-801149","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-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116585710543812628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801149","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=801149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}