{"id":45340,"date":"2025-11-11T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45340\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:45:15","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-injured-in-october-in-arlington-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45340\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being injured in October in Arlington, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A pedestrian critically injured in late October in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arlington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arlington\/\">Arlington<\/a> died last week, according to a news release from the Arlington Police Department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On Oct. 27, shortly after 7 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 5900 block of Kelly Elliott Road to investigate a reported crash, the release said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On arriving, police said they found a man seriously injured after being struck by a sport utility vehicle. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 10 days later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Investigators determined that the driver of the SUV  made a turn on a green turn signal and hit the man as he walked into the crosswalk. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThe driver of the vehicle immediately stopped, remained on scene, and was cooperative with the investigation,\u201d the release said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said no criminal charges have been filed in this incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The pedestrian has been identified as 57-year-old Carlos Mendez, according to records from the Tarrant County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said Mendez was using a crosswalk when he was struck, but it is unknown whether he entered the crosswalk at the direction of a traffic signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian critically injured in late October in Arlington died last week, according to a news release from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[13669,150,152,151,1225,272,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-45340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-accidental-death","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-arlington-headlines","11":"tag-arlington-news","12":"tag-public-safety","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-traffic-accidents"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45340","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=45340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}