{"id":192145,"date":"2025-04-23T06:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192145"},"modified":"2025-04-23T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:52:00","slug":"van-wert-man-killed-in-columbus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/van-wert-man-killed-in-columbus-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert man killed in Columbus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Van Wert man has been identified as the victim of a car-pedestrian accident that occurred in northeast Columbus on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A crash report states Joaquin Estrada, 50, of Van Wert was struck by a car near the intersection of Maize and Morse roads at approximately 5:40 a.m. Sunday. He was taken to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver is cooperating with investigators and to this point, no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A Van Wert man has been identified as the victim of a car-pedestrian accident that occurred in northeast Columbus on Sunday. A crash report states Joaquin Estrada, 50, of Van Wert was struck by a car near the intersection of Maize and Morse roads at approximately 5:40 a.m. Sunday. He was taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 00:10:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192146,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192145\/revisions\/192146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}