{"id":81761,"date":"2025-07-21T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:47:09","slug":"one-dead-4-hurt-after-big-rig-driver-in-dallas-blacks-out-crashes-into-other-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81761\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, 4 hurt after big rig driver in Dallas blacks out, crashes into other vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">One person was killed and four others hurt Monday when a tractor-trailer driver allegedly blacked out before crashing into several other heavy duty vehicles at a far northeast Dallas intersection, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas police said five people were taken after the chain-collision wreck to local hospitals, where an unidentified victim was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Information about the condition of the other victims was not immediately released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas Fire-Rescue crews responded to a call around 12:25 p.m. about the accident at Plano and Miller roads. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">According to investigators, the driver of the 18-wheeler lost consciousness and drove through the intersection, colliding with the other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThe driver struck four other vehicles including another 18-wheeler, a DART bus, a box truck and a sedan,\u201d Dallas Fire-Rescue said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cIt is believed that a driver experienced a medical emergency which led to the crash,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was killed and four others hurt Monday when a tractor-trailer driver allegedly blacked out before crashing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,50,358,16476,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-81761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-traffic-accidents","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\/114893661636786218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81761","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=81761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}