{"id":470821,"date":"2026-10-19T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:00:09","slug":"5-year-old-boy-in-critical-condition-after-suv-hits-him-in-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470821\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old boy in critical condition after SUV hits him in Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792440009_848_car-crash-generic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-47e62d5a=\"\">AI was used in creating or altering this image. (Chat GPT \/ FOX Local)<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">GARLAND, Texas &#8211; A 5-year-old boy is in critical condition after an SUV struck him on Broadway Boulevard in Garland.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Garland Police responded to the crash around 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">After arriving, officers found an unconscious 5-year-old boy. The child went to a hospital, where he remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Police say the child ran into the roadway before an SUV hit him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Police do not expect to file charges against the driver at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Garland Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/garland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AI was used in creating or altering this image. (Chat GPT \/ FOX Local) GARLAND, Texas &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1046,581,1282,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":["post-470821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas-county","tag-garland","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470821","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=470821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}