{"id":177952,"date":"2026-02-24T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:53:34","slug":"deadly-auto-pedestrian-crash-in-downtown-austin-police-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177952\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly auto-pedestrian crash in downtown Austin; police investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/44198822247.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">A look at the scene of a deadly auto-pedestrian crash near the 7200 block of Congress Avenue on Feb. 24, 2026. <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Austin Police Department is investigating a deadly auto-pedestrian crash that happened in downtown Austin.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">APD says the incident happened near the 7200 block of Congress Avenue at around 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police say a man was crossing the street when a vehicle hit him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The driver reportedly left the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The victim later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">APD says it is continuing to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">No further details about the driver or the victim have been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/downtown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A look at the scene of a deadly auto-pedestrian crash near the 7200 block of Congress Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,993,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-177952","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","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-downtown","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177952","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=177952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}