{"id":253945,"date":"2026-04-17T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:26:12","slug":"dallas-pedestrian-killed-after-suspect-highjacks-car-crashes-into-another-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253945\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas pedestrian killed after suspect highjacks car, crashes into another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Dallas pedestrian was killed after a crash linked to a carjacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the suspect stole a car, then crashed into another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the other car was also treated for injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DALLAS &#8211; A pedestrian is dead after a Thursday evening crash that police say started with a carjacking.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas pedestrian death<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It started when a suspect jumped into a passing vehicle, pushed out the driver, and sped away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect and the driver of the vehicle they struck were both treated for their injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The names of those involved have not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not commented on charges for the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information was limited at the time of publishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article comes from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Dallas pedestrian was killed after a crash linked to a carjacking. Police say the suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8581,102,104,103,59983],"class_list":{"0":"post-253945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-car","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-dallas-pd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253945","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=253945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}