{"id":307042,"date":"2025-11-22T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/307042\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:30:11","slug":"man-dead-after-being-hit-by-car-trying-to-get-help-for-flat-tire-on-i-42-in-johnston-county-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/307042\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after being hit by car, trying to get help for flat tire on I-42 in Johnston County :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is dead after being hit by a car on Interstate 42 at Wilson&#8217;s Mills early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway Patrol told the WRAL Breaking News Tracker that around midnight, a 35-year-old man and a woman crossed I-42 (formerly U.S. Highway 70) in Johnston County to get some help for a flat tire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two climbed a concrete barricade in the median of the road. The man was then hit by a car going westbound. The woman was not physically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the accident occurred during a time of light patchy rain and dense fog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver was also not injured and is not expected to face charges in this incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SHP aided Wilson&#8217;s Mills police in this investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is dead after being hit by a car on Interstate 42 at Wilson&#8217;s Mills early Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,451,159105,3,159106,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-307042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-johnston-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-state-highway-patrol","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307042","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=307042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}