{"id":547871,"date":"2026-04-24T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:36:08","slug":"murder-arrests-after-man-killed-by-car-near-accrington-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547871\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder arrests after man killed by car near Accrington pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men and three teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 44-year-old was struck by a car and killed near a pub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Weller was hit by a VW Passat car near to the Nag&#8217;s Head pub in Accrington town centre, at the junction of Blackburn Road and Birch Street on Wednesday night, Lancashire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was taken to hospital but died later. The force said the car failed to stop at the scene and was later found abandoned in Barden Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men, aged 23 and 18, and three teenagers, aged 17, are being held in police custody for questioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men and three teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 44-year-old was struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-547871","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\/547871","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=547871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}