SAVANNAH — The Savannah Police Department is investigating a crash on Interstate-516 late July 8 that resulted in serious injuries to a 42-year-old pedestrian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to police, the initial investigation shows Howard Akins, of Chester Township, Pennsylvania, was walking in the middle of the left, southbound lane of I-516 between Mile Markers six and seven just prior to 11 p.m. when he was struck by a Honda Accord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Akins was transported to Memorial Medical Center for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Savannah Police Dept. expressed concern earlier this year <\/a>about the number of pedestrians<\/a> and cyclists that have been hit by cars<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SAVANNAH — The Savannah Police Department is investigating a crash on Interstate-516 late July 8 that resulted in serious injuries to a 42-year-old pedestrian. According to police, the initial investigation shows Howard Akins, of Chester Township, Pennsylvania, was walking in the middle of the left, southbound lane of I-516 between Mile Markers six and seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traffic","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}