{"id":744313,"date":"2026-08-20T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744313\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:44:11","slug":"boy-14-dies-in-hospital-after-being-hit-by-bus-in-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744313\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 14, dies in hospital after being hit by bus in Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 14-year-old boy has died after being hit by a bus, whose driver was subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police were called to reports of a collision at The Hard, Portsmouth, at 16:25 BST on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pedestrian was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and has since died, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 39-year-old Portsmouth man was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and bailed until 17 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have appealed for witnesses or people with dashcam or CCTV footage to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bus company Stagecoach said it was helping the police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the firm said: &#8220;We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of the 14-year-old boy following the incident involving one of our buses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this extremely difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hard is a busy street and travel interchange in the centre of Portsmouth, incorporating a bus station and Portsmouth Harbour railway station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy has died after being hit by a bus, whose driver was subsequently arrested. Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744313","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\/744313","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=744313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}