{"id":385133,"date":"2026-01-03T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:24:08","slug":"police-impairment-suspected-in-deadly-mesa-golf-cart-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385133\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Impairment suspected in deadly Mesa golf cart crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9x4wor7hjfytp0uj.jpg\" alt=\"Man dead after being struck by a golf cart in Mesa\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">MESA, Ariz. &#8211; A man died Friday afternoon following a golf cart crash near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Southern+Av+%26+Greenfield+Rd\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x31886735b04577b1?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:2428&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Greenfield Road and Southern Avenue<\/a>, and investigators believe impairment played a role.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Mesa Police responded to the scene around 4 p.m. on Jan. 2. Investigators say the man was driving the golf cart when he got out while it was still in motion and was struck by it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Bystanders rushed to help the man, lifting the golf cart off him before emergency responders arrived. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A woman who was also in the golf cart at the time of the crash was taken to a hospital for treatment. Her condition has not been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No names have been released in this incident.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Mesa Police are continuing to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Southern+Av+%26+Greenfield+Rd\/@33.39365,-111.735245,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x872baf16729e0ab3:0x31886735b04577b1!8m2!3d33.39365!4d-111.735245!16s%2Fg%2F1ymss3n1p?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Map of the area where the crash happened<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/mesa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mesa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MESA, Ariz. &#8211; A man died Friday afternoon following a golf cart crash near Greenfield Road and Southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[3308,49,48,622,36147,163802,44,82,182],"class_list":["post-385133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-az","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-maricopa-county","tag-mesa","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}