{"id":242568,"date":"2025-10-22T03:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242568\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T03:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:32:07","slug":"rochester-pro-golfers-death-ruled-an-accident-by-medical-examiner-abc-6-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242568\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester pro golfer&#8217;s death ruled an accident by medical examiner &#8211; ABC 6 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day&#8217;s local, regional and national news, detailed events and late-breaking stories are presented by the ABC 6 News Team, along with the latest sports, weather updates including the extended forecast.<\/p>\n<p>(ABC 6 News) \u2014 The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has ruled the death of a Rochester man who was hit by a car as an accident.<\/p>\n<p>38-year-old Nathan Westergaard was hit by a car just before 5 a.m. on August 3. Officers who responded to the scene performed life-saving measures, but he died as a result of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaaltv.com\/news\/minnesota-news\/rochester-man-who-died-on-salem-road-identified-by-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rochester man who died on Salem Road identified by police<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Rochester police, Westergaard was hit by the vehicle while lying in the road.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaaltv.com\/tag\/rochester\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rochester<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The day&#8217;s local, regional and national news, detailed events and late-breaking stories are presented by the ABC 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-242568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}