{"id":350423,"date":"2026-06-25T20:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350423\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:27:21","slug":"airline-drive-hit-and-run-80-year-old-man-dies-after-being-hit-by-driver-while-trying-to-cross-road-with-his-wife-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350423\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Drive hit-and run: 80-year-old man dies after being hit by driver while trying to cross road with his wife, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; An 80-year-old man is dead after being hit by a driver while trying to cross the road with his wife, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The deadly hit-and-run happened at about 10:35 p.m. on Thursday at 11900 Airline Drive, HPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At the scene, HPD Sgt. D. Griffiths told ABC13 that just before the incident, the man was walking with his wife after she got off work at a nearby restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;She was ahead of him, he was walking behind, and that&#8217;s when he was struck by the vehicle that didn&#8217;t stop,&#8221; Griffiths said, adding that they were not in a crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the victim, described as an 80-year-old man, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In an update, HPD said the driver who fled was in a white SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Griffiths said the driver could face a charge of failing to stop and render aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information is urged to contact the HPD Vehicular Crimes Division at 713-247-4072 or speak anonymously with Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; An 80-year-old man is dead after being hit by a driver while trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124866,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-350423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-124866","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350423","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=350423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}