{"id":40208,"date":"2025-08-23T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/man-killed-while-directing-traffic-in-greenville-county-investigation-underway\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:30:27","slug":"man-killed-while-directing-traffic-in-greenville-county-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/man-killed-while-directing-traffic-in-greenville-county-investigation-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed While Directing Traffic in Greenville County, Investigation Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PlLEUgbXCsc?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Tragedy struck in Greenville County as 40-year-old Cesar Pena was hit and killed by a pickup truck while directing traffic at the intersection of East North Street and Tammont Drive in Taylors. According to South Carolina Highway Patrol, Pena was wearing a reflective vest and working for his employer when the crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Investigators are still working to determine who was at fault. Troopers emphasize that pedestrian safety is a shared responsibility between walkers and drivers. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccd So far this year, 91 pedestrians have died in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 Full coverage and updates available at WSPA.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy struck in Greenville County as 40-year-old Cesar Pena was hit and killed by a pickup truck while<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}