{"id":335950,"date":"2026-07-10T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:31:11","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-jacksonville-crash-police-searching-for-second-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335950\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in Jacksonville crash; police searching for second vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Police are looking for a driver who struck a pedestrian early this morning in Jacksonville who later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. at Western Boulevard and Gateway Drive South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say a Jeep Wrangler first hit the victim, and as the driver was rendering aid, a second vehicle struck the pedestrian and didn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That second vehicle was pulling a U-Haul trailer, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pedestrian, whose name has yet to be released, died after being taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who knows information about the second vehicle is urged to call Jacksonville police at 910-938-6402 or Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19506,23883,116,118,117,6562,7228],"class_list":["post-335950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-and","tag-hit","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}