{"id":484051,"date":"2026-01-01T05:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:41:10","slug":"driver-killed-after-car-overturns-on-east-loop-820-during-crash-in-fort-worth-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484051\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after car overturns on East Loop 820 during crash in Fort Worth, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police were investigating the cause of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/12\/31\/all-northbound-lanes-of-us-75-shut-down-after-fatal-crash-near-i-635\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/12\/31\/all-northbound-lanes-of-us-75-shut-down-after-fatal-crash-near-i-635\/\">fatal two-car crash<\/a> on the East Loop 820 North Freeway in Fort Worth on New Year\u2019s Eve that shut lanes  and snarled the evening commute for motorists, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Around 5:45 p.m., Fort Worth police responded to a major accident in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/12\/27\/these-dallas-fort-worth-roads-are-among-the-most-traffic-plagued-in-texas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/12\/27\/these-dallas-fort-worth-roads-are-among-the-most-traffic-plagued-in-texas\/\">northbound lanes<\/a> at 600 East Loop 820 North Freeway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said two cars collided, causing one to overturn. The driver of the flipped car died at the scene, police said. Officers did not release the driver\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Three hours after the crash, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/12\/11\/police-cracking-down-on-drunk-driving-during-holidays-heres-how-to-stay-safe-on-roads\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/12\/11\/police-cracking-down-on-drunk-driving-during-holidays-heres-how-to-stay-safe-on-roads\/\">officers were still on the scene<\/a>, Fort Worth police confirmed. <\/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\">Investigators did not immediately say if if they planned to pursue criminal charges in connection with the wreck. A Fort Worth police officer said Wednesday evening the incident appears to be an unfortunate accident, but it will still be investigated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were investigating the cause of a fatal two-car crash on the East Loop 820 North Freeway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,16476,522,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-484051","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-texas","12":"tag-traffic-accidents","13":"tag-transportation","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115818247238033268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484051","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=484051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}