{"id":408300,"date":"2026-08-16T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408300\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:24:07","slug":"plano-woman-hit-killed-while-running-across-highway-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408300\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano woman hit, killed while running across highway, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman from <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/plano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plano<\/a> died early Sunday morning after police say she tried to cross State Highway 121.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/plano-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plano Police<\/a> said it happened on the eastbound side of the highway near Ohio Drive just after 1 a.m. The department said the 37-year-old woman ran across the westbound side of the highway and tried to continue crossing in the eastbound lanes when she was hit by an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Plano Police said Plano Fire-Rescue attempted lifesaving measures, but she was declared dead at the scene. The SUV driver, police reported, was not hurt and remained at the scene to cooperate with investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was reopened around 6 a.m., the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      Felesha  Lee<\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from Plano died early Sunday morning after police say she tried to cross State Highway 121.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,1934,272],"class_list":["post-408300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-police-department","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408300","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=408300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}