{"id":31421,"date":"2021-12-25T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31421"},"modified":"2021-12-25T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T22:34:12","slug":"macon-man-dead-after-christmas-eve-pedestrian-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31421","title":{"rendered":"Macon man dead after Christmas Eve pedestrian crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Macon\">MACON<\/a> &#8212; A 54-year-old Macon man is dead after a Christmas Eve pedestrian crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the fatal pedestrian collision that occurred on Anthony Road near Cedar Street. The incident was called into Macon-Bibb 911 Center at about 9:50 p.m.\u00a0Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office,\u00a054-year-old Joseph Lennos Wright Jr., of Macon, was fatally struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross Anthony Road near Cedar Street. The vehicle was traveling on Anthony Road when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright was transported to Atrium Health Navicent by ambulance, but later died from his injuries early the next morning. According to Coroner&nbsp;Leon Jones, the next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently no charges or arrests in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This incident is still under investigation. Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u00a0at (478) 751-7500 or call the Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=12]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MACON &#8212; A 54-year-old Macon man is dead after a Christmas Eve pedestrian crash. The Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the fatal pedestrian collision that occurred on Anthony Road near Cedar Street. The incident was called into Macon-Bibb 911 Center at about 9:50 p.m.\u00a0Friday night. According to the Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office,\u00a054-year-old Joseph Lennos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10327,"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":[8476,8475],"class_list":["post-31421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-bibb-county","tag-macon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421","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=31421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}