{"id":5297,"date":"2014-04-11T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2014-04-11T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:02:19","slug":"police-id-westtown-pedestrian-killed-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"Police ID Westtown pedestrian killed last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">76-year-old woman was crossing Paoli Pike when she was struck by car<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Image-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5299\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Image 1\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Image-13.jpg\" width=\"102\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>A 76-year-old Westtown Township woman who died on Sunday, April 6, of injuries she sustained after being hit by a car in front of East Goshen Township Park has been identified as Helen Athanas, a Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department news release said on Friday, April 11.<\/p>\n<p>The release said officers who responded to the reported accident at 11:42 a.m. in the 1600 block of Paoli Pike in East Goshen Township, found the victim lying along the side of Paoli Pike with serious injuries. The male driver of a 2013 Toyota Prius that struck the woman, an 83-year-old West Chester resident, stopped immediately and remained at the accident scene to speak with police, the release said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Athanas was transported to Paoli Hospital, where she was pronounced dead from injuries sustained in the accident, the release said. Police have determined that Athanas had been walking with a family member at the East Goshen Park and decided to return to the family vehicle.\u00a0 The victim was crossing Paoli Pike in an area that was not designated as a crosswalk to return to the park when she was struck by the westbound Toyota Prius, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident remains under investigation by the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department and any witnesses are urged to call the department at 610-692-5100.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>76-year-old woman was crossing Paoli Pike when she was struck by car A 76-year-old Westtown Township woman who died on Sunday, April 6, of injuries she sustained after being hit by a car in front of East Goshen Township Park has been identified as Helen Athanas, a Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department news release said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[3412,659],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-helen-athanas","tag-westtown-east-goshen-regional-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}