{"id":316690,"date":"2025-12-15T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316690\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:37:09","slug":"preston-cyclist-critical-after-suspected-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316690\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston cyclist critical after suspected hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cyclist who was struck in a suspected hit-and-run collision in Preston is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man was found unresponsive in North Road by a member of the public, who flagged down an ambulance at about 04:50 GMT, Lancashire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers later found a black Ford Focus with &#8220;damage consistent with having been involved in a collision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 24-year-old man from Fulwood has since been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving with excess alcohol and driving with excess drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist who was struck in a suspected hit-and-run collision in Preston is in a critical condition. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-316690","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}