{"id":177906,"date":"2026-02-24T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177906\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:03:10","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-south-congress-hit-and-run-austin-police-search-for-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177906\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in South Congress hit-and-run; Austin police search for driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police were investigating a deadly hit-and-run early Tuesday morning in South Austin.<\/p>\n<p>APD said the crash happened in the 7200 block of South Congress Avenue near the Dittmar Road intersection.<\/p>\n<p>According to APD, an older man was crossing the street when he was struck at about 2:08 a.m. The driver fled the scene and remained at large.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man was pronounced dead at the scene about 10 minutes later and that officers interviewed witnesses in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>APD said South Congress was shut down as officers worked to reopen it before morning traffic picked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police were investigating a deadly hit-and-run early Tuesday morning in South Austin. APD said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-177906","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\/177906","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=177906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}