{"id":28664,"date":"2013-02-17T11:09:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T10:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/woman-80-killed-hit-run-100926161.html"},"modified":"2013-02-17T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T10:09:26","slug":"woman-80-killed-in-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/woman-80-killed-in-hit-and-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 80, killed in hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">An 80-year-old woman has died after she was mowed down in the street by a hit-and-run driver, say police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was left with serious injuries when she was struck while crossing the road in Yardley, Birmingham, on Saturday morning at about 11.30am.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Ambulance Service said the woman had suffered &#8220;multiple serious injuries and was in cardiac arrest&#8221; when medics arrived. She was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s family has been informed but police have not yet publicly named her.<\/p>\n<p>A large-scale police operation to trace the car and driver started immediately after the crash, after the vehicle sped from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Some hours after the accident officers found a damaged blue Vauxhall Astra dumped at the roadside about six miles away in Solihull, and which police believe is the car involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said a man was now under arrest on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;The elderly woman injured in the non-stop collision in Yardley has died as a result of her injuries. Her family have been informed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 26-year-old visited Stechford police station and has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said medics attempted to resuscitate the woman as soon as they arrived but &#8220;despite their best efforts, nothing could be done to save the woman and she was confirmed dead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old woman has died after she was mowed down in the street by a hit-and-run driver, say police.<br \/>\nThe woman was left with serious injuries when she was struck while crossing the road in Yardley, Birmingham, on Saturday morning at about 11.30am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}