{"id":393965,"date":"2025-11-21T05:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:50:33","slug":"driver-arrested-in-tre-train-crash-that-killed-5-year-old-fort-worth-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393965\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested in TRE train crash that killed 5-year-old, Fort Worth police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 24-year-old man was arrested in  an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/11\/19\/child-killed-adult-injured-after-car-hit-by-tre-train-in-fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/11\/19\/child-killed-adult-injured-after-car-hit-by-tre-train-in-fort-worth\/\">accident<\/a> that left a 5-year-old dead Wednesday, Fort Worth police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Fabian Riojas was arrested and booked into the Fort Worth jail Wednesday night, according to jail records. He faces one charge of manslaughter-traffic accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">As of Thursday afternoon, Riojas remains in custody, and it is unclear if bond has been set or whether he has an attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police confirmed Riojas and the boy are related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials responded to reports of a major accident involving a Trinity Railway Express train and a vehicle in the 5300 block of Elliot Reeder Road about 3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">After arriving at the scene, police confirmed a black Dodge Charger, carrying an adult and a child, tried to go around a railroad barricade and was hit on the passenger side by the train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police later identified Riojas as the driver of the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The child was identified as Emilio Jacobi Martinez, according to Tarrant County Medical Examiner records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The boy died at the scene, and Riojas was transported to a hospital for treatment, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No injuries were reported among the 43 passengers on the train, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No further information about the collision was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man was arrested in an accident that left a 5-year-old dead Wednesday, Fort Worth police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,40460,7371,7372,358,16476,522,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-393965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dart","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-traffic-accidents","14":"tag-transportation","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115586126803267896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393965","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=393965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}