{"id":229568,"date":"2026-04-01T02:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229568\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:48:13","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-lake-highlands-hit-and-run-dallas-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229568\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in Lake Highlands hit-and-run, Dallas police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was killed early Tuesday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/lake-highlands\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Highlands<\/a> hit-and-run, Dallas police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were dispatched\u00a0shortly before 12:30 a.m. to the 8100 block of the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway service road, near Coit Road, for reports of an accident.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a driver was traveling eastbound on the service road when they hit a male pedestrian.\u00a0The driver did not stop to check on the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. He was not publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and no additional information about the incident, including potential suspects, was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed early Tuesday in a Lake Highlands hit-and-run, Dallas police say. Officers were dispatched\u00a0shortly before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-229568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229568","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=229568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}