{"id":332633,"date":"2025-12-24T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332633\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:14:08","slug":"speeding-driver-who-killed-pedestrian-in-oldbury-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332633\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding driver who killed pedestrian in Oldbury jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A speeding driver who hit and killed a pedestrian as she was crossing the road has been jailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muazzam Luqman was driving a Vauxhall Astra at more than 70mph in a 40mph limit when he struck the 54-year-old on Birmingham Road, Oldbury on 6 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was pronounced dead at the scene. Luqman fled the crash before returning, where he was arrested, said West Midlands Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old of Blakeley Hall Road, Oldbury admitted causing death by dangerous driving, and was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court to six years in prison, banned from driving for eight years and will have to take an extended retest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A speeding driver who hit and killed a pedestrian as she was crossing the road has been jailed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-332633","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\/332633","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=332633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}