{"id":346031,"date":"2026-01-01T07:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346031\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:47:12","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-lorry-on-a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346031\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being hit by lorry on A5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has died after being hit by a lorry in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crash happened on the A5 Watling Street near Cannock at about 11:00 GMT on New Year&#8217;s Eve, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The male pedestrian was hit by the lorry and subsequently pronounced dead by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His next of kin had been informed and were being supported, police added. The driver of the lorry was uninjured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after being hit by a lorry in Staffordshire. The crash happened on the A5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-346031","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\/346031","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=346031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}