{"id":930569,"date":"2026-07-12T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:59:16","slug":"man-killed-after-disabled-vehicle-struck-on-north-central-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930569\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed After Disabled Vehicle Struck On North Central Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Northbound U.S. 75 near Royal Lane in Dallas, where a fatal crash closed the freeway for approximately three hours Sunday morning. This image does not show the crash. | TxDOT <\/p>\n

A man died and two other people went to the hospital after a driver struck a disabled vehicle on North Central Expressway in Dallas on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

The crash happened at approximately 8 a.m. in the northbound lanes near Royal Lane.<\/p>\n

Dallas Fire-Rescue said a driver struck the disabled vehicle and pinned a man beneath the wreckage, according<\/a> to WFAA.<\/p>\n

Emergency responders transported a female passenger from that vehicle and the driver of the second vehicle to a hospital. Officials have not released their conditions.<\/p>\n

Freeway closed for three hours<\/p>\n

The crash forced authorities to close all northbound lanes for approximately three hours while crews treated the victims and cleared the scene. Police diverted drivers at Meadow Road.<\/p>\n

Authorities later reopened the freeway.<\/p>\n

Officials have not released the victim\u2019s identity or announced what caused the second driver to strike the disabled vehicle. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northbound U.S. 75 near Royal Lane in Dallas, where a fatal crash closed the freeway for approximately three…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,44446,29401,375252,12428,123853,375253,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,302702,2969],"class_list":["post-930569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-dallas-traffic","tag-fatal-crash","tag-north-central-expressway","tag-royal-lane","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-75","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116909023450227435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930569","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=930569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}