{"id":55179,"date":"2025-11-16T02:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55179\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T02:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:22:06","slug":"pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-car-in-vista-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55179\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit and killed by car in Vista \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives from the San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Department are investigating a fatal collision in Vista involving a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies from the Sheriff\u2019s Vista Station responded at 8:14 p.m. Friday regarding reports of a collision on South Melrose Drive near Hacienda Drive, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived at the scene, deputies learned the collision occurred between a gray Toyota RAV4 SUV and a pedestrian, who they said was found lying in a northbound lane of South Melrose Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies and paramedics attempted life-saving measures before the pedestrian was taken to a hospital, where they died.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the SUV remained at the scene, cooperated with investigators and was determined not to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The Vista Sheriff\u2019s Station Traffic Unit is conducting the investigation and anyone who witnessed it or has additional information was asked to contact the station at 760-940-4551.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives from the San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Department are investigating a fatal collision in Vista involving a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,3054,74,84,76,75,9902],"class_list":{"0":"post-55179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-north-county","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-vista"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55179","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=55179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}