A University of San Diego student was fatally struck by a San Diego police patrol car early Wednesday near the Linda Vista campus, officials said.<\/p>\n
The collision occurred around 1:30 a.m. on Linda Vista Road near Goshen Street, near USD.<\/p>\n
Police said the officer was driving west on Linda Vista in a marked police car when he \u201cfelt an impact on his vehicle,\u201d police spokesperson Lt. Cesar Jimenez said in a statement. The unnamed officer turned his car around and found a man lying in the roadway, Jimenez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is unclear, at this time, why the person entered the roadway,\u201d Jimenez said.<\/p>\n
Police immediately rendered first aid, and paramedics transported the pedestrian to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n
Police said the man was in his 20s. A USD official confirmed the man who died was a student.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe University of San Diego campus community is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of one of our students who was struck early this morning by a vehicle near the campus,\u201d a university spokesperson said in a statement. The name of the student was not immediately released.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 619-531-2000. The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A University of San Diego student was fatally struck by a San Diego police patrol car early Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,10923,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-365454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-linda-vista","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365454","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=365454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}