{"id":1045460,"date":"2026-09-05T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1045460\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:05:33","slug":"pedestrian-killed-by-vehicle-in-sunnyside-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1045460\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed by vehicle in Sunnyside; driver arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786462768_728_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b05d485a=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; A man was arrested on Friday night for allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian in Houston&#8217;s Sunnyside area.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston Sunnyside: Pedestrian killed in crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash was reported at around 9:45 p.m. Friday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Bellfort+Ave+%26+Cullen+Blvd,+Houston,+TX+77051\/@29.6721944,-95.3734364,14.5z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640957763e267db:0x3bf731e9ee723d6f!8m2!3d29.6689985!4d-95.3556314!16s%2Fg%2F11hb4qkl3r?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cullen Boulevard and Bellfort Avenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police at the scene said a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle that was going north on Cullen. The pedestrian was taken to a hospital, but was later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cullen.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation. According to police, the driver was found to be intoxicated and was arrested for DWI.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No one involved has been identified at this time. Both the victim and the suspect are said to be adult men.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators are looking into any other potential factors that resulted in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> OnScene and Houston Police<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/sunnyside\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunnyside<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A man was arrested on Friday night for allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian in Houston&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1045461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,4345,50,85234,358,52,3187,68],"class_list":["post-1045460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-news","tag-sunnyside","tag-texas","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117220001157277854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}