{"id":462887,"date":"2026-09-13T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462887\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:08:12","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-lemon-grove-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462887\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in Lemon Grove hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person died after being struck by a car in Lemon Grove early Sunday morning, and the driver fled the scene, a sheriff\u2019s official said.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 1:15 a.m., deputies responded to a report that a person was down on the road in the vicinity of Lemon Grove and Massachusetts avenues, Lt. Dave Perkins said. The person died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A silver Chevy Malibu with major front-end damage was seen leaving the area, Perkins said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a traffic alert was issued. It was lifted about 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available about the incident or the person who died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person died after being struck by a car in Lemon Grove early Sunday morning, and the driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,3053,181,6503,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-462887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-county","tag-latest-headlines","tag-lemon-grove","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462887","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=462887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}