{"id":466594,"date":"2026-10-15T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466594\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:30:16","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-hit-and-run-in-north-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466594\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run in North Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident happened at North Lamar Boulevard and Fairfield Drive.<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man is dead after being hit by a vehicle in North Austin early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department, officers responded to the 8700 block of North Lamar Blvd., near Fairfield Drive, around 1 a.m. after reports an unresponsive pedestrian possibly involved in a crash.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who is still unidentified, was found in a gas station parking lot and was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is being investigated as Austin\u2019s 67th fatal crash of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact APD at 512-974-8111 or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened at North Lamar Boulevard and Fairfield Drive. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man is dead after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-466594","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\/466594","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=466594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}