{"id":8971,"date":"2026-09-17T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/man-dies-after-being-struck-on-i-26-westbound\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:45:11","slug":"man-dies-after-being-struck-on-i-26-westbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/man-dies-after-being-struck-on-i-26-westbound\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies After Being Struck on I-26 Westbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C.<\/strong> &mdash; Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified a man who died after being struck by a vehicle on Interstate 26 in Lexington County September 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Robert Edward Dove, 42, of Easley, was walking in the roadway near the 105-mile marker on westbound I-26 in the Columbia area of Lexington County when he was struck by a vehicle at approximately 4:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Dove was pronounced dead at the scene from injuries sustained in the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Lexington County Coroner&rsquo;s Office and the South Carolina Highway Patrol continue to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. &mdash; Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified a man who died after being struck by a vehicle on Interstate 26 in Lexington County September 7. Robert Edward Dove, 42, of Easley, was walking in the roadway near the 105-mile marker on westbound I-26 in the Columbia<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/man-dies-after-being-struck-on-i-26-westbound\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[126],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-public-safety","tag-coroners-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FatalCrashImage_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}