{"id":1161,"date":"2026-02-08T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:26:22","slug":"moped-rider-killed-in-alleged-hit-and-run-with-car-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Moped rider killed in alleged hit-and-run with car | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/26\/01\/1920x1080\/skynews-police-crime-scene_7143300.jpg?20260123092345\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>A moped rider has died in an alleged hit-and-run in southwest London.<\/p>\n<p>The rider collided with a car in Kingston, and the vehicle&#8217;s driver failed to stop, according to the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Saturday at 11.37pm on Wood Street at the junction with Horse Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the moped rider, a 22-year-old man, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>But the driver of the car, which is described as dark-coloured, allegedly drove off.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/metropolitan-police-6381\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a><\/strong> are now trying to find the motorist.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this stage, and specialist officers are supporting the victim&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are appealing for witnesses, or anyone with information, including dash cam footage, to come forward.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/moped-rider-killed-in-alleged-hit-and-run-with-car-13504893\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moped rider has died in an alleged hit-and-run in southwest London. The rider collided with a car in Kingston, and the vehicle&#8217;s driver failed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}