{"id":115619,"date":"2026-01-01T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115619\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:39:08","slug":"pedestrian-killed-on-interstate-5-north-of-downtown-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115619\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed on Interstate 5 north of downtown San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was struck and killed while in the lanes of Interstate 5 north of downtown Wednesday morning, a California Highway Patrol officer said.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened about 6:40 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the freeway, south of Sassafras Street, Officer Kimberly Gonzalez said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The man was struck by a Toyota Prius. He sustained major injuries and died at the scene. Gonzalez said the reason why the man was in the freeway lanes remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Prius driver remained at the collision scene and cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was struck and killed while in the lanes of Interstate 5 north of downtown Wednesday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-115619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}