{"id":749920,"date":"2026-08-26T03:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749920\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:56:16","slug":"man-charged-following-death-of-woman-hit-by-van-in-stranraer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749920\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged following death of woman hit by van in Stranraer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged over a road traffic offence following a fatal collision in Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Margaret Joy Todd was hit by a white Vauxhall Vivaro van at about 10:20 on Saturday 3 January in Sheuchan Street near the junction with Park Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services attended and the 85-year-old, known as Joy, was taken to hospital where she later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No-one else was injured. Police said a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged over a road traffic offence following a fatal collision in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749920","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\/749920","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=749920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}