{"id":442148,"date":"2026-08-24T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442148\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:40:15","slug":"man-who-attempted-to-cross-southfield-street-in-wheelchair-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442148\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who attempted to cross Southfield street in wheelchair dies after being hit by car \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly man who was struck by a vehicle as he attempted to cross 11 Mile Road in Southfield in an electric wheelchair on Saturday evening has died, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Police didn\u2019t release the man\u2019s name but said he was 87 years old and had been a Southfield resident.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson from the Southfield Police Department, the collision happened at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 22 in the area of 11 Mile Road and Marshall Street. The vehicle that reportedly struck him was westbound on 11 Mile Road. The driver remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the crash, 11 Mile Road was closed between Greenfield Road and Fairfax Street but later reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly man who was struck by a vehicle as he attempted to cross 11 Mile Road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,175186,5421,175185],"class_list":["post-442148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-southfield-police-department","tag-traffic-crash","tag-wheelchair-bound-man-injured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442148","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=442148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}