OAKLAND \u2014 A 72-year-old man police said was walking in a traffic lane in North Oakland died Sunday evening after he was struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n
The coroner\u2019s bureau identified the man Monday as Billy Grant, who lived in another part of Oakland.<\/p>\n
The fatal collision happened about 6:29 p.m. Sunday in the 6000 block of Claremont Avenue, not far from College Avenue.<\/p>\n
Police said Grant for unknown reasons was walking in the southbound lane of traffic when a car driving south struck him. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n
The driver of the car, a 21-year-old Berkeley woman, remained at the scene and was cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n
Police said it does not appear that drugs or alcohol were factors in the collision.<\/p>\n
The investigation into the death is continuing. Anyone with information may call police traffic investigators at 510-777-8570.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A 72-year-old man police said was walking in a traffic lane in North Oakland died Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,764,7,8,1531,138,332,1529,100,3271,143,145,144,385,16217],"class_list":["post-160985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-berkeley","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-east-bay-crime","tag-news","tag-north-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-regional","tag-traffic-fatalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160985","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=160985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}