{"id":101801,"date":"2025-12-26T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101801\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:42:08","slug":"42-year-old-man-dead-after-being-struck-by-car-in-grand-prairie-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101801\/","title":{"rendered":"42-year-old man dead after being struck by car in Grand Prairie on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 42-year-old man is dead after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic-accidents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic-accidents\/\">hit by a car<\/a> while crossing the street in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/grand-prairie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/grand-prairie\/\">Grand Prairie<\/a> on Christmas, Grand Prairie police said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials responded to reports of an accident in the 5400 block of Lake Ridge Parkway at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The preliminary investigation determined that a man, Roger Torres, was crossing Lake Ridge Parkway when he was struck by a vehicle, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Torres died at the scene around 8:43 p.m., according to the Tarrant County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The driver who struck Torres remained at the scene and is cooperating with police. No charges are expected, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No further details about the incident were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 42-year-old man is dead after being hit by a car while crossing the street in Grand Prairie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[13669,150,152,151,1279,1225,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-101801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-accidental-death","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-arlington-headlines","11":"tag-arlington-news","12":"tag-grand-prairie","13":"tag-public-safety","14":"tag-traffic-accidents"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}