{"id":259060,"date":"2026-04-21T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259060\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:54:12","slug":"texas-man-charged-for-dwi-after-hitting-pedestrian-on-chippewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259060\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man charged for DWI after hitting pedestrian on Chippewa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Texas man is facing charges after allegedly causing a crash that closed a portion of West Chippewa St. \u00a0early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buffalo Police say 36-year-old Marcus Edwards of Temple, Texas was driving down West Chippewa St. near near Franklin St. when he allegedly struck a pedestrian who was standing on the sidewalk. Edwards then continued driving and hit another vehicle, according to a BPD spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/59-old-man-dead-following-185102894.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:59-year-old man dead following rollover crash in North Collins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;59-year-old man dead following rollover crash in North Collins&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">59-year-old man dead following rollover crash in North Collins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was taken to ECMC for what police say are non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edwards has been charged with Driving While Intoxicated and a traffic violation for changing lanes unsafely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas man is facing charges after allegedly causing a crash that closed a portion of West Chippewa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97137,97135,12341,27,29,28,97136],"class_list":["post-259060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-buffalo-police","tag-marcus-edwards","tag-temple","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-west-chippewa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259060","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=259060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}