{"id":45372,"date":"2025-11-11T20:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45372\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:09:28","slug":"pedestrian-dies-11-days-after-arlington-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45372\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies 11 days after Arlington crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/092125-sh-arlington-pd-shooting-galleria-dr_kdfw6b_00.16.51.56.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; A 57-year-old man who was struck by an SUV while in a crosswalk last month has died from his injuries, according to the Arlington Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>   Arlington Pedestrian Crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Latest:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office identified the victim as Carlos Mendez, 57, who died in the operating room on Nov. 7 from complications of blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The collision happened on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, around 7 a.m. Officers were dispatched to the 5900 block of Kelly Elliott Road where they found a seriously injured man who had been hit by a sport utility vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Accident investigators determined the driver of the SUV was making a turn on a green light signal when the vehicle struck Mendez as he walked into the designated crosswalk. Police noted that while Mendez was at a designated crosswalk, it is unknown whether he entered it in the direction of a traffic signal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the SUV immediately stopped, remained at the scene, and cooperated with the investigation, police say. No criminal charges have been filed in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Arlington Police Department and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/arlington\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; A 57-year-old man who was struck by an SUV while in a crosswalk last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-45372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372","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=45372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}