OAKLAND \u2014 A pedestrian trying to cross an East Bay freeway died early Monday after being hit by a vehicle in what the California Highway Patrol said was a hit-and-run.<\/p>\n
The collision happened about 5:40 a.m. on southbound Interstate 880 at the South 16th Avenue off-ramp just north of the Embarcadero. Authorities did not identify the pedestrian immediately, pending the investigation and notification of relatives.<\/p>\n
The CHP said they did not know why the person was on the freeway. The driver that hit the person did not stay at the scene.<\/p>\n
Initial reports confirmed by the CHP said the pedestrian tried to cross the freeway from the right-hand side while trying to get to the center divide area. That person wound up down in the far left lane.<\/p>\n
The CHP issued a Sig Alert for severe traffic at 6:15 a.m. and advised motorists to use Interstate 580 as an alternative.<\/p>\n
The investigation into the crash and the search for the driver remain active, according to the CHP. They said anyone with information can call their Oakland office at 510-457-2875. Information should be submitted to CHP Officer R. Perez.<\/p>\n
No other information was available immediately.<\/p>\n
Staff writer Harry Harris contributed to this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A pedestrian trying to cross an East Bay freeway died early Monday after being hit by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2394,9970,143,145,144,44352],"class_list":["post-77406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-hit-by-vehicle","tag-interstate-880","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pedestrian-crossing-dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77406","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=77406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}