{"id":44520,"date":"2022-12-07T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=44520"},"modified":"2022-12-07T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:24:16","slug":"39-year-old-pedestrian-dies-in-crash-in-cobb-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=44520","title":{"rendered":"39-year-old pedestrian dies in crash in Cobb County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"\/tag\/Cobb-County\">Cobb County<\/a> Police Department is investigating a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian that occurred on Austell Road at its intersection with Pat Mell Road on Monday at 6:46 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police, the preliminary investigation revealed a white 2022 Ford F-250 Super-Duty being driven by a 39-year-old Marietta man was traveling north on Austell Road in the right lane. A child was also a passenger in the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say a pedestrian, identified as 32-year-old Derek Johnson ,stepped into Austell Road and collided with the front of the Ford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Johnson was outside of a marked crosswalk. Mr.Johnson was redirected to the north, where he came to an uncontrolled rest in the roadway,&#8221; said Cobb County Police spokesman Aaron Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson was transported to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital by ambulance for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Johnson died from his injuries\u00a0at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of the vehicle and the juvenile child were not injured in the collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collision remains under investigation; anyone with information is requested to contact the Cobb County Police Department S.T.E.P.&nbsp;Unit at 770-499-3987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=7]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cobb County Police Department is investigating a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian that occurred on Austell Road at its intersection with Pat Mell Road on Monday at 6:46 pm. According to police, the preliminary investigation revealed a white 2022 Ford F-250 Super-Duty being driven by a 39-year-old Marietta man was traveling north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29739,"comment_status":"closed","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":[8512,8486,10144],"class_list":["post-44520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-austell","tag-cobb-county","tag-metro-atlanta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44520","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=44520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}