{"id":317984,"date":"2026-06-01T19:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:21:17","slug":"man-hit-killed-after-exiting-his-vehicle-to-assess-damage-from-minor-crash-fort-worth-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317984\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hit, killed after exiting his vehicle to assess damage from minor crash, Fort Worth police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man assessing his vehicle after a minor crash died after he was hit by another driver, who then left the scene, Fort Worth police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded around 1:58 a.m. on Sunday, May 31, to Interstate 35W at East Ripy Street, the Fort Worth Police Department said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators found that an adult man had exited his vehicle following a minor crash when he was hit by another vehicle, officials said. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect in the crash fled the scene but was later located and arrested by police, the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man assessing his vehicle after a minor crash died after he was hit by another driver, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,3737,26024,98771],"class_list":["post-317984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-interstate-35w","tag-minor-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317984","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=317984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}