{"id":42639,"date":"2022-10-27T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=42639"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:30:02","slug":"man-dies-in-accident-while-trying-to-pay-for-parking-at-atlanta-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=42639","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in accident while trying to pay for parking at Atlanta parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Atlanta\">ATLANTA<\/a> &#8212; A man died early Thursday morning in a ticketing accident while trying to pay for parking at a Midtown Atlanta parking garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Know:<\/strong> Officers responded to single vehicle accident at a parking deck at 1197 Peachtree St. at about 12:15 a.m. Upon arrival, officers located the vehicle and driver involved. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> Police Department, preliminary investigation indicates the victim had opened his driver\u2019s side door to reach the ticket machine that operates the exit gate of the parking garage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle moved forward while the victim was still partially outside of it which resulted in a collision and entrapment with the driver being pinned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This investigation remains active and ongoing at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-map\" data-map-style=\"default\" data-map-details=\"true\" data-points=\"[{&quot;placeTitle&quot;:&quot;Peachtree Street Northeast&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Peachtree Street Northeast&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;1197 Peachtree Street Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;address.68444439213156&quot;,&quot;coordinates&quot;:{&quot;longitude&quot;:-84.385066,&quot;latitude&quot;:33.790518}}]\" data-zoom=\"17\" data-map-center=\"{&quot;lng&quot;:-84.385066,&quot;lat&quot;:33.790518}\" data-marker-color=\"red\" data-show-fullscreen-button=\"true\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/?api=1&amp;query=33.790518,-84.385066\">Peachtree Street Northeast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reminder:<\/strong> The above information is preliminary in nature and can change as the investigation progresses and new information comes to light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=5]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; A man died early Thursday morning in a ticketing accident while trying to pay for parking at a Midtown Atlanta parking garage. What We Know: Officers responded to single vehicle accident at a parking deck at 1197 Peachtree St. at about 12:15 a.m. Upon arrival, officers located the vehicle and driver involved. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[2],"tags":[8482,8472,12130],"class_list":["post-42639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atlanta","tag-fulton-county","tag-midtown-atlanta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42639","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=42639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42639\/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=42639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}