{"id":456663,"date":"2026-09-07T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456663\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:38:08","slug":"bicyclist-injured-in-escondido-hit-and-run-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456663\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist injured in Escondido hit-and-run \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Escondido police sought the public&#8217;s help Monday in finding a hit-and-run driver who seriously injured a bicyclist over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was heading west on Washington Avenue at about 9:20 p.m. Saturday when the driver made a right turn and struck the bicyclist, who was riding east in the north-side crosswalk, according to the Escondido Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was described as a light-colored SUV with tinted windows, possible a Ford Expedition or Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver failed to stop and was last seen continuing north on Ash Street,&#8221; police said, adding that the SUV may have front-end damage.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, a 27-year-old man, was taken to a hospital with life threatening injuries, the EPD added.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the accident was asked to call traffic investigator Jake Houchin at 760-839 4904, or police dispatch at 760-839-4722.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Escondido police sought the public&#8217;s help Monday in finding a hit-and-run driver who seriously injured a bicyclist over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10428,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-456663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-escondido","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456663","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=456663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}