{"id":474290,"date":"2026-09-24T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474290\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:24:22","slug":"bicyclist-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-south-county-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474290\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist killed in hit-and-run crash in South County \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year-old bicyclist was killed early Wednesday in a hit-and-run collision in San Diego\u2019s Egger Highlands neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 1:15 a.m. on Palm Avenue near 16th Street. The victim was riding a mountain bike eastbound in the bicycle lane when an unknown vehicle traveling eastbound veered right and struck him from behind, according to the San Diego Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver fled the scene in an unknown direction. The bicyclist died at the scene. His name was not released.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not yet released a description of the vehicle or the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities urged anyone with information about the crash to contact police or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old bicyclist was killed early Wednesday in a hit-and-run collision in San Diego\u2019s Egger Highlands neighborhood. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,3055],"class_list":["post-474290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-south-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474290","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=474290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}