Arlington police are investigating a fatal collision involving a 79-year-old woman who was struck outside a crosswalk.<\/p>\n
ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 An elderly woman was killed in an auto-pedestrian crash while she was attempting to cross the street, police said.<\/p>\n
The Arlington Police Department (APD) said officers responded to the 1400 block of S. Collins Street near Oram Street after receiving reports that a woman in the roadway was hit by a car. APD said the 79-year-old woman was taken to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n
The victim was later identified as Patricia Diehl, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n
The driver who hit her immediately stopped, remained on scene, and was cooperative with the investigation, APD said. She is not facing any criminal charges at this time, police said.<\/p>\n
Police said Diehl was trying to cross Collins Street from west to east when she was struck by the driver, who was traveling northbound. She was not using a designated crosswalk at the time, according to APD.<\/p>\n
The victim’s identity was not released by police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington police are investigating a fatal collision involving a 79-year-old woman who was struck outside a crosswalk. ARLINGTON,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-446264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446264","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=446264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}