{"id":247741,"date":"2025-10-29T03:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247741\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T03:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:14:12","slug":"former-police-officer-killed-in-alleged-hit-run-in-northern-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247741\/","title":{"rendered":"Former police officer killed in alleged hit-run in northern NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeff former police officer has died after being struck by a car in northern NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a showground on \ufeffColdstream Street, in Ulmarra \u2013 about 15km north of Grafton \u2013 after reports of a crash about 4.50pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers at the scene were told that a white four-wheel drive \ufeffhad hit a pedestrian before being seen driving along Big River Way towards Grafton.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated a 55-year-old woman for serious injuries, however, she died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>9News understands that the woman is a former NSW police officer.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police have established a crime scene and are investigating the circumstances of the crash. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Following inquiries, about 7.40am today, police arrested a 50-year-old man and seized a white four-wheeled drive in South Grafton. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The man has been taken to Coffs Harbour Police Station, where inquiries are ongoing. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeff former police officer has died after being struck by a car in northern NSW. Emergency services were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-247741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}