{"id":220876,"date":"2026-03-15T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:24:43","slug":"woman-struck-and-killed-after-rideshare-driver-accelerates-by-mistake-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220876\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman struck and killed after rideshare driver accelerates by mistake, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A pedestrian was tragically killed on Saturday after police say a rideshare driver accidentally hit her at the corner of a busy Northwest Side intersection.<\/p>\n<p>First responders were called around 1:09 p.m. to the intersection of West Quill Drive and Bandera Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officers on scene said the driver was traveling down Quill with a passenger when he attempted to turn onto Bandera.<\/p>\n<p>The driver thought he pressed the brake but \u201caccidentally \u201d hit the gas pedal and accelerated, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A woman in her mid 30s who was standing at the corner with an advertisement sign was struck.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>She was pronounced dead by EMS at the scene. Police said there are no criminal elements to this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A pedestrian was tragically killed on Saturday after police say a rideshare driver accidentally hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-220876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}