PONTIAC, MI \u2014 A 59-year-old man was hit and killed by a car while trying to cross a busy road in Oakland County on Monday, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at 9:30 a.m. Monday in the southbound lanes on Woodward Avenue near South Boulevard in Pontiac, officials said.<\/p>\n
The Pontiac man was running across the busy road when he was struck by a 2026 BMW X5, officials said.<\/p>\n
Officials said the man was outside a designated crosswalk area when he was struck by the car.<\/p>\n
The driver of the BMW, a 37-year-old Waterford Township man, stayed at the scene and was not injured in the crash, officials said.<\/p>\n
Investigators do not believe drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash for the BMW driver. He also passed all field sobriety tests, officials said.<\/p>\n
Officials did not release the victim’s name as they continue searching for his family.<\/p>\n
Officials were still investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTIAC, MI \u2014 A 59-year-old man was hit and killed by a car while trying to cross a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-259246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259246","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=259246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}