Law enforcement leaders announced that Texas Highway Patrol troopers will now permanently be stationed in Tarrant County. The move comes as Tarrant County is expected to see a 14% increase in fatal accidents in 2025.<\/p>\n
“It used to be a road that has got me places, and now it’s a road that takes me back,” Daquirie Thanphirom said. <\/p>\n
Along the busy and bending Boat Club Road in Fort Worth is a cross for Thanphirom\u2019s little brother. It stands as a symbol of how fast things can take a turn for drivers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’ll never get my mother’s scream out of my head. I’ll never get my father just looking completely blank, and hearing my two siblings cry,” Thanphirom said. <\/p>\n
Thanphirom\u2019s 21-year-old little brother, Solomon Sanchaz, a UTA sociology student, was killed in a head-on collision by a wrong-way driver in February. He\u2019s one of the more than 150 people killed on Tarrant County roadways so far this year.<\/p>\n
“It’s that 2% that we’re coming after because they cause havoc out there on the roadway, and we’re going to come and get them,” Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, law enforcement leaders made the announcement that Texas Highway Patrol troopers would permanently be stationed in Tarrant County. The group of 10 troopers known as a \u201csergeant area\u201d will focus on traffic hot spot areas across the county.<\/p>\n
“For over two decades, troopers have not been permanently stationed in Tarrant County, but now they will be,” Jeremy Sherrod, DPS Regional Director for the North Texas Region, said.<\/p>\n
The enforcement initiative will crack down on speeding, impaired, distracted and aggressive driving across Tarrant County.<\/p>\n
The long-term goal is to decelerate the number of driving deaths. Thanphirom says the enforcement is a start and hopes the troopers will see what she sees happening on the road where her brother lost his life.<\/p>\n
“See how fast people are driving, see how people are cutting each other off, and there’s nowhere to go if you’re to be hit,” Thanphirom said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement leaders announced that Texas Highway Patrol troopers will now permanently be stationed in Tarrant County. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":344448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-344447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-tarrant-county","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115466172124202880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344447","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=344447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}