{"id":441255,"date":"2026-09-19T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:04:14","slug":"texas-dps-motorcycle-trooper-hit-by-car-in-south-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441255\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS motorcycle trooper hit by car in South Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Texas Department of Public Safety motorcycle trooper was released from the hospital, and a woman was arrested after she allegedly hit the trooper with her car Friday night in South Austin.<\/p>\n

According to DPS spokesman Sgt. Billy Ray, a Volkswagen Golf struck the trooper\u2019s motorcycle while he was stopped at a red light about 8:50 p.m. Friday on Ben White Boulevard near South Congress Avenue<\/a>. The trooper was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released.<\/p>\n

Ray said the Volkswagen’s driver, a 28-year-old woman, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated with an open container. The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas Department of Public Safety motorcycle trooper was released from the hospital, and a woman was arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-441255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441255","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=441255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}