{"id":321132,"date":"2025-12-17T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321132\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:33:07","slug":"appeal-for-driver-to-come-forward-after-calcot-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321132\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for driver to come forward after Calcot fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A potential witness to a collision that killed a 64-year-old father as he crossed a road has been urged to come forward by police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen Allen, 64, was on his routine morning walk when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c997xvrgj29o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck in Bath Road in Calcot, near the Lidl supermarket<\/a>, by at least one vehicle at about 06:30 GMT on 26 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men, both from Reading, have been arrested in connection with Mr Allen&#8217;s death, with one bailed and the other released pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sgt Matt Cadmore, from Thames Valley Police, said: &#8220;I&#8217;d like to stress, I believe this driver to be a witness, and I would urge them to contact [officers] as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential witness to a collision that killed a 64-year-old father as he crossed a road has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-321132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321132","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=321132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}