{"id":211517,"date":"2024-11-29T23:18:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T04:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=211517"},"modified":"2024-11-29T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T04:18:21","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-thanksgiving-evening-collision-in-cobb-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=211517","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Killed in Thanksgiving Evening Collision in Cobb County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man was fatally struck by a vehicle on Thanksgiving evening while crossing South Cobb Drive, according to Cobb County police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Happened?:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>When:<\/strong> Thursday, shortly after 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Where:<\/strong> South Cobb Drive, south of Appleton Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say a gray 2016 Ford Escape was traveling north on South Cobb Drive when it struck a man crossing the road outside of a marked crosswalk. The vehicle came to a controlled stop in a nearby driveway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Victim<\/strong>: The man, whose identity and age have not been released, was transported to a hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What You Can Do:<\/strong> Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Cobb County Police Department\u2019s STEP Unit at 770-499-3987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was fatally struck by a vehicle on Thanksgiving evening while crossing South Cobb Drive, according to Cobb County police. What Happened?: \u2022 When: Thursday, shortly after 7:30 p.m. \u2022 Where: South Cobb Drive, south of Appleton Drive. Police say a gray 2016 Ford Escape was traveling north on South Cobb Drive when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":30779,"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":[13026,11617,9076],"class_list":["post-211517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-crash","tag-pedestrian","tag-thanksgiving","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211517","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\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}