{"id":119222,"date":"2026-01-04T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:40:13","slug":"mustang-strikes-kills-man-sitting-in-oceanside-median","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119222\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustang strikes, kills man sitting in Oceanside median"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Oceanside-PD-car.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oceanside-PD-car.jpg\" alt=\"Oceanside police Cruiser investigation death case shooting crash\" class=\"wp-image-164664\"  \/><\/a>An Oceanside Police Department cruiser. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A man seated in a median was killed after being hit by a car, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceansidepolice.com\/home-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oceanside Police Department<\/a> said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded at 7:19 p.m. Friday to the intersection of Oceanside Boulevard and College Boulevard. Preliminary information indicated a black Ford Mustang traveling eastbound on Oceanside Boulevard struck the unidentified man while he was on the center median, just east of the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the deceased man was being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin.<\/p>\n<p>The driver is cooperating with investigators, according to a police statement. He is not suspected of having been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the collision was asked to contact police at 760-435-4769.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oceanside Police Department cruiser. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego) A man seated in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3282,8254,74,76,75,58317],"class_list":["post-119222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-oceanside","tag-oceanside-police-department","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-traffic-fatal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119222","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=119222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}