{"id":599641,"date":"2026-04-11T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599641\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:03:16","slug":"pedestrian-seriously-injured-after-being-hit-by-car-in-devonport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599641\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by car in Devonport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 44-year-old man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle in Devonport on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania Police said emergency services were called to Best Street, near Molly Malones, at around 9:25pm.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was transported to hospital with what police reported to be serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was not physically injured and is assisting police with their enquiries.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"61463\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/news\/pedestrian-seriously-injured-after-being-hit-by-car-in-devonport\/kzsxi01ef8norckyfi5u\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bd2e1183-kzsxi01ef8norckyfi5u.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kzsxi01ef8norckyfi5u\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The collision happened on Best Street in Devonport&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/bd2e1183-kzsxi01ef8norckyfi5u-300x200.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/bd2e1183-kzsxi01ef8norckyfi5u-1024x682.jpeg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bd2e1183-kzsxi01ef8norckyfi5u.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/>The collision happened on Best Street in Devonport<\/p>\n<p>Police are now appealing for public assistance as they investigate the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with witness information or vision of the crash is asked to contact Devonport Police on 131 444 and quote OR802506,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-599641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599641","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=599641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}