{"id":551767,"date":"2026-04-26T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:41:10","slug":"appeal-after-man-killed-in-birmingham-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551767\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal after man killed in Birmingham hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are appealing for witnesses after a pedestrian died in a hit-and-run in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A brown Vauxhall Astra hit Shaun Harron, aged 44, at the junction of Romsley Road and Adams Hill in Bartley Green, just after 00:30 BST on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The car, which had the registration number LV63 WHN, did not stop after the collision and headed away in the direction of Jiggins Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harron was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to hospital where he was sadly later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for witnesses after a pedestrian died in a hit-and-run in Birmingham. A brown Vauxhall Astra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-551767","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\/551767","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=551767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}