{"id":434419,"date":"2026-09-13T03:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T03:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434419\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T03:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T03:18:29","slug":"driver-wanted-after-woman-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-on-wilcrest-drive-in-southwest-houston-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434419\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver wanted after woman killed in hit-and-run crash on Wilcrest Drive in southwest Houston, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789269509_656_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 11, 2026 8:35PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; An investigation is underway after a woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash in southwest Houston on Friday, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to HPD, officers responded to the fatal crash in the 9500 block of Wilcrest Drive at 6:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD says that officers found a woman in the median near the intersection of Wilcrest Drive and Bissonnet Street. Officials say that she was taken to an area hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say that the woman&#8217;s identity, 46, is pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information on the wanted driver or the vehicle is urged to contact the HPD Hit and Run Unit at 713-247-4065 or speak anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, September 11, 2026 8:35PM Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150826,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-434419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-150826","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434419","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=434419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}