{"id":507055,"date":"2026-10-25T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507055\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:56:08","slug":"el-cajon-street-closed-after-man-lying-in-road-is-killed-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507055\/","title":{"rendered":"El Cajon street closed after man lying in road is killed \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified man who was lying in an El Cajon street early Saturday was struck and killed by a passing vehicle, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the El Cajon Police Department and Heartland Fire personnel responded to the 1300 block of East Main Street at 4:43 a.m. Saturday to a report of a collision between a westbound vehicle and a pedestrian near Jamacha Road and North Second Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pedestrian suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at a local hospital. It is unknown why the man had been lying in the street,&#8221; ECPD Lt. Kevin Reilly said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver remained on scene and was cooperative with investigators. DUI does not appear to be a factor in the collision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Officers closed the roadway for several hours Saturday while they investigated the scene. They asked anyone with information about the collision to call 619-579-3311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unidentified man who was lying in an El Cajon street early Saturday was struck and killed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6568,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-507055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-el-cajon","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\/507055","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=507055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}