{"id":341780,"date":"2026-06-18T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:08:07","slug":"woman-arrested-in-hit-and-run-death-of-pedestrian-on-downtown-austin-i-35-service-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341780\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in hit-and-run death of pedestrian on downtown Austin I-35 service road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 A woman has been arrested in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-dies-in-hospital-after-hit-and-run-in-downtown-austin-police-seek-suspect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit-and-run crash<\/a> that killed a pedestrian on the downtown Austin I-35 service road last Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Maria Flores, 34, was identified as the suspect and booked into the Travis County Jail on Monday, June 15, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to online jail records, she faces a second-degree felony charge of accident involving death and is being held on a $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-dies-in-hospital-after-hit-and-run-in-downtown-austin-police-seek-suspect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Pedestrian dies in hospital after hit-and-run in Downtown Austin, police seek suspect<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The department identified the victim as Jonathan Hernandez, 33.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez was struck by a vehicle in the 600 block of North I-35 southbound service road at approximately 11:35 p.m. on June 12. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services transported him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The suspect vehicle fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The crash was Austin&#8217;s 37th traffic fatality of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A woman has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-341780","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\/341780","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=341780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}