{"id":218301,"date":"2025-03-04T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=218301"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:16:10","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-early-morning-crash-near-the-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=218301","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Killed in Early Morning Crash Near The Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A person died after being hit by a car on Cobb Parkway near The Battery Atlanta early Tuesday morning. The fatal collision happened just outside Smyrna city limits near Calibre Brooke Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> The deadly crash occurred on one of Cobb County&#8217;s busiest corridors, raising safety concerns for residents who walk near this entertainment district. Pedestrian deaths continue to be a serious problem across metro <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1322\">Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\ude97 <strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Police say the driver stayed at the scene after hitting the pedestrian. Authorities have not released the victim&#8217;s name or any other details about what led to the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong> The area where this crash happened connects to The Battery, where thousands of people visit restaurants, shops and Truist Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person died after being hit by a car on Cobb Parkway near The Battery Atlanta early Tuesday morning. The fatal collision happened just outside Smyrna city limits near Calibre Brooke Way. \ud83d\udea8 Why It Matters: The deadly crash occurred on one of Cobb County&#8217;s busiest corridors, raising safety concerns for residents who walk near [&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":[11617,17341],"class_list":["post-218301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-pedestrian","tag-the-battery","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218301","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=218301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218301\/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=218301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}