{"id":337480,"date":"2026-06-15T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337480\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:16:16","slug":"austin-police-searching-for-vehicle-involved-in-deadly-pedestrian-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337480\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police searching for vehicle involved in deadly pedestrian crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a gray or silver Hyundai Sonata with front-end damage linked to a crash on the 600 block of North I-35 on the southbound frontage road.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Police Department (APD) is searching for a vehicle connected to a deadly crash involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>APD said the crash happened Friday, June 12, in the 600 block of North Interstate 35 frontage road southbound. Officers responded to a collision between a pedestrian and an unidentified vehicle that left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS) responders provided life-saving measures at the scene. The pedestrian was taken to a local hospital, where they later died.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators describe the vehicle as a gray or silver 2011 to 2015 Hyundai Sonata with front-end damage and a missing right headlight.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to this incident is urged to contact APD&#8217;s Vehicular Homicide Unit at 512-974-8111. Tips may also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/d7QHTFWyK3U?e=95e8a7726f&amp;c2id=4f1af58d94d59fa6229426bb13543888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/d7QHTFWyK3U?e=95e8a7726f&amp;c2id=4f1af58d94d59fa6229426bb13543888\">austincrimestoppers.org\u00a0<\/a>or calling (512) 472-8477. Police said a reward of up to $1,000 may be available for any information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a gray or silver Hyundai Sonata with front-end damage linked to a crash on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-337480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337480","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=337480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}