A driver struck and killed a 32-year-old man walking along Texas 114 in far north Fort Worth yesterday, then sped off without stopping, leaving investigators searching for the vehicle and the person behind the wheel. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as Brandon Lee Webb, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Fort Worth police responded to the auto-pedestrian crash shortly after 1 a.m. near Northwest High School, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Webb was walking along the two eastbound lanes of Texas 114 when he was hit by the front-driver side of a vehicle that then drove off without stopping, police said. As of the newspaper's report, police had not announced any arrests in the crash.
A Fast-Growing Corridor With Few Places to Walk
The crash unfolded at 2076 Texas 114, a stretch of two-lane state highway that links DFW commuter hubs to Wise County and runs near Northwest High School inside the Northwest Independent School District, according to DFW Scanner. The outlet's dispatch logs show Fort Worth Fire and Police personnel were sent to the scene at 12:14 a.m. Sunday. The area has seen heavy residential development in recent years even as it continues to carry high-speed freight and commuter traffic, the same report notes.
Under Texas Transportation Code, pedestrians are required to use sidewalks when they're available or to walk facing oncoming traffic along the left shoulder when they aren't, and state and local authorities can restrict pedestrian access to main lanes on limited-access highways, per the transportation code cited by FindLaw. It remains unclear why Webb was walking along the roadway itself at that hour, and police have not indicated whether the surrounding highway offers sidewalk access.
Fleeing the Scene Carries Steep Penalties
Whoever was driving now faces the possibility of a second-degree felony charge, since Texas Transportation Code § 550.021 makes fleeing the scene of a fatal collision — commonly called failure to stop and render aid — punishable by 2 to 20 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000, according to FindLaw's summary of the statute. That charge applies to the fleeing driver regardless of who was at fault in the initial collision. Even if the driver is eventually caught and granted probation, state law now imposes a mandatory minimum of 120 days in jail as a condition of that supervision, per legal guidelines detailed by Saputo Toufexis.
Part of a Grim Pattern on North Texas Roads
Webb's death adds to a troubling toll for pedestrians across the region. Statewide, 772 pedestrians were killed and another 1,455 seriously injured across 6,095 crashes in 2024, with pedestrians accounting for 19 percent of all Texas traffic deaths despite making up just 1 percent of crashes overall, according to Texas Department of Transportation data. In Tarrant County alone, 60 pedestrian fatalities were recorded that same year, based on TxDOT crash data analyzed by the Loewy Law Firm.
Fort Worth's own numbers tell a similar story. The city logged 12,865 total motor vehicle collisions in 2024, resulting in 116 deaths and more than 6,600 injuries — roughly 35 crashes a day in a city whose population has now topped 1 million, per an analysis from Varghese Summersett. The City of Fort Worth's own Walk Fort Worth pedestrian plan has found that pedestrian collisions have historically accounted for nearly 25 percent of all traffic fatalities citywide, even though they represent only 1.3 percent of total roadway crashes.
Timing appears to play a role, too. A 2026 analysis by law firm Hamilton Wingo found that 45 percent of fatal crashes across the DFW metroplex happen during evening-through-early-morning hours, when dim lighting and driver fatigue combine to raise the odds of a deadly outcome — conditions that mirror the roughly 1 a.m. timing of Webb's death.
A Recurring Story in Fort Worth
Webb's death is at least the third fatal pedestrian hit-and-run Hoodline has reported on in the Fort Worth area within the past year, following a South Riverside hit-and-run death in March, a fatal December crash on Berry Street, and an April incident on the South Freeway where police appealed for dashcam footage. No arrests have been announced in this case, and Fort Worth police have not released a description of the suspect vehicle or said whether nearby security cameras may have captured the crash.
