{"id":15287,"date":"2019-01-06T07:26:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02819f3cb0072568"},"modified":"2025-02-26T08:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:02:01","slug":"woman-killed-after-hit-by-car-possibly-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2019\/01\/06\/woman-killed-after-hit-by-car-possibly-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMAN KILLED AFTER HIT BY CAR, POSSIBLY DRUNK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">22-year-old Breondra Newman was killed Saturday in Charlotte, NC after she was hit by vehicles. Breondra was standing in traffic. Evidence suggest that Breondra may have been drunk. Breondra&#8217;s incident marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/charlottealerts\/news\/teenager-killed-after-being-hit-by-several-cars-on-new-years-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second time this year someone was killed after being hit by vehicles.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 5, 2019, at 3:46 a.m., several motorists called 911 to report discovering a possible body in the road. Upon arrival, officers located Breondra lying in the right northbound lane of S. Tryon St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the Major Crash Investigation Unit, DWI Task Force and Crime Scene Search were called to the scene to conduct the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initial investigation shows Breondra was standing in the right northbound lane of S. Tryon St when she was struck by two vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drivers of both vehicles remained on the scene, called 911 and were interviewed. Speed and or alcohol use by either driver is not a factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses statements and evidence indicates Breondra may have been impaired prior to being struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the course of the investigation, it was determined that a short time before the incident occurred, officers encountered a disabled vehicle on Westinghouse Boulevard near the intersection of S. Tryon Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When officers arrived, they discovered Breondra and two other people in the middle of the street with a disabled vehicle. Officers requested a wrecker to tow the vehicle out of the roadway and drove two of the people home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers offered to assist Breondra with a ride home. Breondra refused and walked back and forth several times to a convenience store as officers waited for a wrecker to remove the vehicle from the roadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the vehicle was removed from scene officers looked for Breondra at the convenience store before receiving a call for service about a person down in the roadway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOMAN KILLED AFTER HIT BY CAR, POSSIBLY DRUNK <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18178,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions\/18178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}