{"id":333837,"date":"2025-12-24T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333837\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:29:08","slug":"man-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-southport-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333837\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being hit by car in Southport on Christmas eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 55-year-old was struck on the junctions of Marshside Road and Hesketh Road, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The surrounding area of Marine Drive was shut for some time for an initial investigation by police, but has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Sgt Roper said the 55-year-old&#8217;s family have been informed and are being supported by specially trained family liaison officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We have launched an investigation into the man&#8217;s death, and it is now a priority for us to get answers on how the collision occurred and my team are working to establish the key facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know this happened early in the morning, but if anyone saw what happened or were driving through the area just before the incident occurred then please get in touch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You may have information or dashcam footage that would be useful to our investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 55-year-old was struck on the junctions of Marshside Road and Hesketh Road, the force said. The surrounding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-333837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333837","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=333837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}