{"id":435847,"date":"2026-09-14T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435847\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:28:09","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-hospital-after-hit-and-run-in-se-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435847\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in hospital after hit-and-run in SE Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A pedestrian died in hospital after a hit-and-run driver struck her in the intersection of Ross Road and St Thomas Drive Friday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Police Department officers responded to the collision at approximately 6:31 a.m. The victim was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The female victim has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect did not stop and fled from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO | <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/abbott-burrows-call-for-prosecutorial-oversight-after-williamson-county-killing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abbott, Burrows call for prosecutorial oversight after Williamson County killing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The death marks Austin\u2019s 58th traffic fatality of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This case is being investigated by APD\u2019s Vehicular Homicide Unit. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the Vehicular Homicide Unit at 512-974-8111. Anonymous tips can be submitted through Capital Area Crime Stoppers at <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512- 472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A pedestrian died in hospital after a hit-and-run driver struck her in the intersection of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-435847","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\/435847","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=435847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}