{"id":483135,"date":"2026-11-01T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483135\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:34:33","slug":"man-dies-after-hit-and-run-in-n-austin-burger-king-drive-thru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483135\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after hit-and-run in N Austin Burger King drive-thru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man died early Thursday after a driver allegedly ran him over in a Burger King drive-thru in North Austin and then left the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at 2:17 a.m. at the restaurant at 9523 N. Lamar Blvd., according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a caller reported that a man lay down in the drive-thru lane. Employees were setting out traffic cones so drivers would not hit him when a vehicle came through the lane and ran him over, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/man-in-zombie-costume-stabs-2-at-austin-coffee-shop-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Man in zombie costume stabs 2 at SE Austin coffee shop, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver did not stop. The man was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately release the man\u2019s name or a description of the vehicle or driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man died early Thursday after a driver allegedly ran him over in a Burger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-483135","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\/483135","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=483135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}