{"id":509478,"date":"2026-01-11T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:48:10","slug":"fiery-crash-kills-1-in-southwest-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509478\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery crash kills 1 in Southwest Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DPD-Dallas-Police-car.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; A driver died early Sunday morning after their vehicle veered off a road and erupted in flames in Southwest Dallas, police said.<\/p>\n<p>   Fatal fiery crash in Dallas <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dallas Police responded to the single-vehicle crash in the 8200 block of Clark Road at 5:25 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A preliminary investigation determined the vehicle left the roadway and struck a utility pole before catching fire. The driver died at the scene. His identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators have not said what caused the vehicle to leave the road or if any other factors contributed to the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Dallas Police Department continues to investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A driver died early Sunday morning after their vehicle veered off a road and erupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-509478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-news","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\/115878907564780275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509478","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=509478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}