{"id":198356,"date":"2026-03-10T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:11:07","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-rideshare-driver-in-galleria-area-near-w-alabama-and-sage-houston-pd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198356\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being hit by rideshare driver in Galleria area near W. Alabama and Sage, Houston PD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Houston Police Department says a pedestrian was hit and killed by a driver in the Galleria area on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to police, the incident happened at about 11:30 p.m. at West Alabama Street near Sage Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD said a rideshare driver was on their way to pick someone up when they hit a man in his 60s. The pedestrian was taken to the hospital, where he died, police added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We are unsure at this time if the accident occurred in the crosswalk or further along West Alabama, just east of the intersection,&#8221; HPD Sgt. Kevin Bui said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sergeant said the rideshare driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating with police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bui said no signs of impairment were found on the driver, but an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Houston Police Department says a pedestrian was hit and killed by a driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78370,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-198356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-78370","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198356","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=198356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}