{"id":337702,"date":"2026-06-16T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337702\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:01:08","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-hospital-after-hit-and-run-in-downtown-austin-police-seek-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337702\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in hospital after hit-and-run in Downtown Austin, police seek suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 A pedestrian died in the hospital after a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-critically-injured-after-being-hit-by-a-vehicle-in-downtown-austin-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit-and-run driver struck him<\/a> on the I-35 service road in downtown Austin Friday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Police Department officers responded to the crash in the 600 block of N. I-35 southbound service road at approximately 11:35 p.m. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services attempted life-saving measures before taking the victim to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The male victim has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-critically-injured-after-being-hit-by-a-vehicle-in-downtown-austin-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Pedestrian critically injured after being hit by a vehicle in downtown Austin Friday night<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect vehicle fled the scene following the collision. Investigators are asking the public to help locate a 2011-2015 gray or silver Hyundai Sonata with front-end damage and a missing right headlight.<\/p>\n<p>The death marks Austin&#8217;s 37th traffic fatality of 2026. <\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated by APD&#8217;s Vehicular Homicide Unit. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Vehicular Homicide Unit at 512-974-8111. Anonymous tips can be submitted through Capital Area Crime Stoppers at <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $1,000 is available for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A pedestrian died in the hospital after a hit-and-run driver struck him on the I-35&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-337702","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\/337702","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=337702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}