{"id":625434,"date":"2026-06-07T04:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625434\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:32:13","slug":"euromillions-lottery-winner-from-essex-dies-in-suspected-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625434\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroMillions lottery winner from Essex dies in suspected hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">A EuroMillions winner from Essex has died in a suspected hit-and-run after being knocked off his bicycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Anthony Canty from Maldon won \u00a31m in the draw in 2020, shortly after he had saved the life of a policeman by giving him CPR when he collapsed on a bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Mr Canty was cycling in Maldon Road, Tiptree, when he was involved in a collision with a vehicle on the morning of Thursday 21 May. He died in hospital four days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Essex Police said an 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving while unfit through drink or drugs and failing to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">He remains under investigation and police enquiries continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Officers want to hear from anyone who saw or has footage of a black Ford KA car being driven in the area around the time of the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">To report information visit www.essex.police.uk\/digital101 and quote 174 of 21 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Alternatively you can contact independent charity Crimestoppers, by visiting their website or by calling 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Reporting History sees journalists join <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meet-the-team\/tom-bradby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby<\/a> to revisit their remarkable on-the-day reports of the defining events of the modern age. Listen to the episodes below&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A EuroMillions winner from Essex has died in a suspected hit-and-run after being knocked off his bicycle. Anthony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625434","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\/625434","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=625434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}