{"id":514152,"date":"2026-04-05T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:00:08","slug":"arrests-after-man-dies-in-suspected-hit-and-run-in-atherstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514152\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests after man dies in suspected hit-and-run in Atherstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men have been arrested after a man&#8217;s body was discovered in a Warwickshire road following a suspected hit-and-run incident, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim, in his 50s, was discovered on Monk&#8217;s Park Lane in Atherstone, just after 01:30 BST on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire Police said its main line of inquiry was that a vehicle had hit the man and left the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 23-year-old man from Nuneaton and a 74-year-old man from Shifnal, in Shropshire, were arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, drink driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested after a man&#8217;s body was discovered in a Warwickshire road following a suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-514152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514152","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=514152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}