{"id":436601,"date":"2026-09-15T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436601\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:54:20","slug":"police-searching-for-driver-in-southeast-austin-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436601\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for driver in southeast Austin hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are asking for the public\u2019s assistance in locating a man accused of fleeing the scene of a crash that left one person injured in southeast Austin.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department (APD), the crash happened in the 400 block of Bastrop Highway southbound around 12:21 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of the suspect vehicle left the scene in a white 2001 Toyota Celica. He was last seen wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt, baseball cap and sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information in connection to this incident is asked to contact Capital Area Crime Stoppers by visiting austincrimestoppers.org or by calling 512-472-8477. A reward of up to $1,000 is available for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are asking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-436601","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\/436601","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=436601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}