{"id":177828,"date":"2026-02-24T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:50:06","slug":"1-dead-in-hit-and-run-on-south-congress-avenue-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177828\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in hit-and-run on South Congress Avenue, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was hit by a driver while crossing the roadway early Tuesday, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 One person is dead after a hit-and-run early Tuesday morning in Downtown Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Austin police, a man was crossing the 7200 block of South Congress Avenue when he was hit by a driver not far from William Cannon Drive. The victim died on scene but has not been identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All lanes of South Congress Avenue are closed to traffic as a result of the collision. The roadway is expected to be shut for several hours and it&#8217;s unclear exactly when it will reopen to drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle has not been named, and no additional details are available at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can check traffic conditions across Central Texas using the map below:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was hit by a driver while crossing the roadway early Tuesday, according to law enforcement. AUSTIN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-177828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}