{"id":404153,"date":"2026-08-12T03:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:14:35","slug":"austin-police-identify-pedestrian-killed-on-north-lamar-blvd-in-north-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404153\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police identify pedestrian killed on North Lamar Blvd in North Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police have identified a woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle Sunday night in North Austin.<\/p>\n

According to the Austin Police Department, officers responded around 11:18 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, to a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian in the 8500 block of North Lamar Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The pedestrian, identified as Margaret Govea, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

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Police said the driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation. No charges have been announced.<\/p>\n

The crash is being investigated as Austin’s 50th fatal crash of 2026, resulting in 50 deaths. At the same point in 2025, Austin had recorded 60 fatal crashes resulting in 64 deaths, according to APD.<\/p>\n

Police said the investigation remains ongoing and information could change as it progresses.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact APD’s Vehicular Homicide Unit at 512-974-8111. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to Capital Area Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477 or through its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police have identified a woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-404153","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\/404153","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=404153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}