{"id":440713,"date":"2026-09-19T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440713\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:16:08","slug":"texas-dps-officer-struck-and-injured-by-vehicle-in-south-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440713\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS officer struck and injured by vehicle in South Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Texas Department of Public Safety officer was taken to the hospital after being struck by a vehicle in South Austin Friday night, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>APD Watch Command confirmed the officer was struck in the area of South Congress Avenue and Ben White Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/caldwell-county-deputies-investigate-skeletal-remains-found-outside-luling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Caldwell County deputies investigate skeletal remains found outside Luling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The officer was transported to a hospital with injuries that are not considered life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details about what led up to the incident, including whether anyone was detained or arrested, were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Austin has reached out to DPS for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Texas Department of Public Safety officer was taken to the hospital after being struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-440713","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\/440713","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=440713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}