{"id":180141,"date":"2026-02-25T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180141\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:37:06","slug":"driver-arrested-charged-with-dwi-after-allegedly-hitting-pedestrian-in-s-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180141\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested, charged with DWI after allegedly hitting pedestrian in S Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man was arrested on drunken driving charges after allegedly striking a pedestrian in south Austin last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bijan Cyrus Irani, 34, was arrested the evening of Feb. 20 after Austin Police Department officers responded to a crash in the 9300 block of Menchaca Road at 6:53 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arriving on scene found a vehicle stopped in the center turn lane with significant front-end damage. A man was found with severe injuries and was taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-at-austin-airport-accused-of-filming-in-staff-restroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Man arrested at Austin airport accused of filming in staff restroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Irani remained at the scene. Officers conducted a driving while intoxicated investigation, including standardized field sobriety testing, and determined Irani was intoxicated. He was placed under arrest.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, officers also located a handgun in Irani&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Irani was charged with driving while intoxicated, a Class B misdemeanor, and unlawful carrying of a weapon, a Class A misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man was arrested on drunken driving charges after allegedly striking a pedestrian in south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-180141","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\/180141","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=180141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}