{"id":195219,"date":"2026-02-26T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:08:06","slug":"driver-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-in-downtown-la-crash-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195219\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested on suspicion of DUI in downtown LA crash \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI early Thursday after fatally striking a man in a crosswalk in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old victim was crossing in the crosswalk at about 2 a.m. at 9th Street and Towne Avenue when he was hit by the driver of a Nissan Kicks, the LAPD told NBC4 Investigates. The 22-year-old driver stopped and called for help.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at the scene on suspicion of DUI.<\/p>\n<p>The victim died at the scene. Details about his identity were not immediately available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI early Thursday after fatally striking a man in a crosswalk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7258,1647,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-195219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-downtown-la","9":"tag-downtown-los-angeles","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-lapd","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195219","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=195219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}