{"id":989488,"date":"2026-08-08T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/989488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:36:18","slug":"man-in-wheelchair-killed-in-crosswalk-houston-police-searching-for-hit-and-run-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/989488\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in wheelchair killed in crosswalk; Houston police searching for hit-and-run driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crash happened late Friday near Westover and Telephone in southeast Houston, police say<\/p>\n<p>A 71-year-old man in a wheelchair was fatally struck by vehicle while using a marked crosswalk on Telephone Road in Houston Friday night, police said. (OnScene,  Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Houston_Police_Department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Houston_Police_Department\/\">Houston police<\/a> are investigating a fatal hit-and-run after a man in a wheelchair was struck while using a marked crosswalk Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Officers were called to the area of 7500 Westover Drive at Telephone Road around 10:05 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Investigators said the man, believed to be about 71 years old, was crossing when a vehicle traveling southbound on Telephone hit him. The driver continued on without stopping to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Police described the suspect vehicle as a small white sedan.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HPD Sgt. D. Griffiths said the man was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact the HPD Vehicular Crime Division at 713-247-4072 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/chudspeth\/\" title=\"View Christian Hudspeth&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Hudspeth<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Christian Hudspeth is a Houston native who joined KPRC 2 News in December 2025. Christian began his news career at KTRK in 2022 before moving to newsrooms in Waco, Texas (KXXV), Las Vegas, Nevada (KTNV), and now back to H-Town. He earned his BA at the University of Houston Jack J. Valenti School of Communication in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crash happened late Friday near Westover and Telephone in southeast Houston, police say A 71-year-old man in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":989489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[23762,4219,31979,396825,4345,5429,14259,358,3187],"class_list":["post-989488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crashes","tag-crime","tag-fatal-crashes","tag-hit-and-runs","tag-houston","tag-houston-police-department","tag-hpd","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117061339578523506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989488","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=989488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}