{"id":603037,"date":"2026-04-24T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:32:08","slug":"keene-new-hampshire-crash-pedestrian-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603037\/","title":{"rendered":"Keene, New Hampshire crash: Pedestrian killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tKEENE, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A section of Route 12 in Keene was shut down Thursday night after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; See previous coverage in the video player above &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Just after 8:30 p.m., police responded to a crash involving a car and a pedestrian. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the pedestrian sustained fatal injuries during the collision. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed for about four hours between Maple Avenue and Wyman Road while police investigated.  <\/p>\n<p>The Keene Fire Department, New Hampshire State Police and the New Hampshire Department of Transportation assisted the Keene Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Lt. Joel Chidester at 603-357-9820.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEENE, N.H. \u2014 A section of Route 12 in Keene was shut down Thursday night after a pedestrian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,13715,451,28974,55216,262341,2804,3,15622,151353,232541,452,453,262342],"class_list":["post-603037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-content","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-keene","tag-maple-avenue","tag-new-hampshire","tag-news","tag-nh","tag-police-presence","tag-route-12","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wyman-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603037","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=603037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}