{"id":540983,"date":"2026-04-20T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:09:10","slug":"boy-6-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-ellesmere-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540983\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 6, dies after being hit by car in Ellesmere Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving after a six-year-old boy was hit by a car and died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The child was struck by a black Infiniti FX30D on Anchor Drive, in Ellesmere Port, at about 11:40 BST on Sunday, Cheshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was treated near Whitby Sports and Social Club and then transported to Countess of Chester Hospital but died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 48-year-old man has also been held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving without a licence and has since been released on bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving after a six-year-old boy was hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-540983","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\/540983","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=540983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}