{"id":471465,"date":"2026-10-20T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:44:35","slug":"man-in-wheelchair-struck-and-killed-while-crossing-road-in-robstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471465\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in wheelchair struck and killed while crossing road in Robstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accident happened around 10 p.m. near Bosquez Street and Western Avenue Friday. Investigators say Bueno was not using a crosswalk when he was struck.<\/p>\n<p>ROBSTOWN, Texas \u2014 A 59-year-old man was killed after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the roadway in a wheelchair in Robstown Friday night, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the man as Gerardo Bueno.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened around 10 p.m. near Bosquez Street and Western Avenue. Investigators say Bueno was not using a crosswalk when he was hit by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Police say it was dark at the time, and the driver stayed on site. Bueno died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The collision remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief Mike Tamez is reminding pedestrians to use designated crosswalks when crossing roadways and urging everyone to exercise caution to help prevent similar tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The accident happened around 10 p.m. near Bosquez Street and Western Avenue Friday. Investigators say Bueno was not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-471465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471465","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=471465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}