
{"id":3832,"date":"2008-11-06T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2008-11-06T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:36:08","slug":"news-brief-bus-driver-charged-in-pedestrian-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/11\/06\/news-brief-bus-driver-charged-in-pedestrian-death\/","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Bus driver charged in pedestrian death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chapel Hill Police Department charged James Willie Orr on Tuesday with misdemeanor death by vehicle in connection with the death of a pedestrian last week.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOrr was the driver of a Chapel Hill Transit Bus that hit Valerie Hughes, 33, in the intersection of South Columbia Street and Mason Farm Road at about 4 p.m. on Oct. 27. She later died at UNC Hospitals.<br \/>\nAccording to a statement from Chapel Hill Town Manager Roger Stancil, the Town of Chapel Hill conducted an internal investigation and Orr was terminated as an employee of the town on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Hughes is the second pedestrian to have died following a collision with a Chapel Hill Transit bus this year. Lisa Carolyn Moran, 20, of Scotland, was hit by a Chapel Hill Transit bus on Manning Drive near South Columbia Street in May.<\/p>\n<p>Orr is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 12. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chapel Hill Police Department charged James Willie Orr on Tuesday with misdemeanor death by vehicle in connection with the death of a pedestrian last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}