{"id":253853,"date":"2026-04-17T06:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253853\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:12:10","slug":"dallas-pedestrian-killed-after-suspect-highjacks-car-crashes-into-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253853\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas pedestrian killed after suspect highjacks car, crashes into another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-2026-04-16-215426.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A pedestrian is dead after a Thursday evening crash that police say started with a carjacking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Dallas pedestrian death <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The incident began with a robbery call at the intersection of North Collett Avenue and Live Oak Street around 5:30 p.m., Dallas PD said in a release to FOX 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It started when a suspect jumped into a passing vehicle, pushed out the driver, and sped away from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Soon after, the suspect crashed into another car in the 1200 block of Collett Ave. The impact of that crash injured the pedestrian, who DPD said later died at a hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The suspect and the driver of the vehicle they struck were both treated for their injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The names of those involved have not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police have not commented on charges for the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Information was limited at the time of publishing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Dallas Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A pedestrian is dead after a Thursday evening crash that police say started with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-253853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253853","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=253853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}