WEST CHESTER, Pa. – A graduate of Parkland High School in Lehigh County has died after being hit by a car.<\/p>\n
It happened early Sunday morning near the campus of West Chester University, where he was a student.<\/p>\n
On Sunday at approximately 1:30 a.m., West Chester Police units were dispatched to the 300 block of South High Street for a motor vehicle crash involving a pedestrian, according to a press release from the police.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian, later identified by the Chester County Coroner as Garrett Nicholas, was struck by a vehicle travelling on South High Street. Nicholas was transported by to a local hospital but succumbed to his injuries several hours later at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Social media posts from family show he was a 2023 graduate of Parkland.<\/p>\n
The car involved and the driver\/occupant(s) of the vehicle have been identified, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officials say the crash is being investigated and ask anyone with information about the crash to contact Sgt. Gerry DiNunzio at 610-696-2700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST CHESTER, Pa. – A graduate of Parkland High School in Lehigh County has died after being hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,74436,21478,74434,6111,74433,34971,74435,74432],"class_list":{"0":"post-165161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-chester-county-coroner","12":"tag-fatal-accident","13":"tag-garrett-nicholas","14":"tag-hospital","15":"tag-motor-vehicle-crash","16":"tag-pedestrian-struck","17":"tag-south-high-street","18":"tag-west-chester-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}