{"id":368471,"date":"2026-07-10T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:27:49","slug":"apd-identifies-bicyclist-killed-in-hit-and-run-in-central-austin-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368471\/","title":{"rendered":"APD identifies bicyclist killed in hit-and-run in central Austin on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 APD has identified a bicyclist killed in a hit-and-run on Sunday morning in central Austin.<\/p>\n<p>At around 5:21 a.m., Austin police officers responded to a crash involving a vehicle and a bicycle near 1800 W. 35th St.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle, described by police as a 2016-2018 Blue Honda Civic with damage on its front, fled the scene after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, identified as 65-year-old Chaw-Long Shih, was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead three days later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-man-charged-after-assaulting-woman-with-a-handgun-on-sixth-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Affidavit: Man charged after assaulting woman with a handgun on Sixth Street<\/a><\/p>\n<p>APD says the incident is being investigated as Austin&#8217;s 43rd fatal crash of 2026, resulting in 43 fatalities this year.<\/p>\n<p>Those who may have information on this incident are asked to contact APD&#8217;s Vehicular Homicide Unit at 512-974-8111.<\/p>\n<p>Tips may be submitted anonymously through the Crime Stoppers Program <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online <\/a>or at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 APD has identified a bicyclist killed in a hit-and-run on Sunday morning in central Austin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-368471","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\/368471","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=368471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}