{"id":490519,"date":"2026-01-03T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490519\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:50:20","slug":"driver-critical-passenger-dead-after-fleeing-fort-worth-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490519\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver critical, passenger dead after fleeing Fort Worth police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767484220_188_KDFWU20_2559_MXF_01.38.06.24.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; A pursuit with Fort Worth police ended in a crash with severe injuries and a fatality early Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The chase began around 2:40 a.m. on Exchange Avenue in the Fort Worth Stockyards, where police saw the suspect&#8217;s vehicle driving the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police attempted to stop the vehicle, at which point the suspect made a U-turn and fled the scene, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Another patrol car saw the vehicle a few minutes later and attempted another traffic stop. The suspect fled again, and eventually lost control and crashed into a utility pole near the 1500 block of East 4th\u00a0Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The passenger in the car was extracted and later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The driver was taken to a hospital and was last reported as critical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The names of the passenger and suspect were not released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Information was limited at the time of publishing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article came from the Fort Worth Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A pursuit with Fort Worth police ended in a crash with severe injuries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-490519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-texas","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\/115833852690276683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490519","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=490519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}