{"id":107330,"date":"2026-01-01T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107330\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:30:28","slug":"2-killed-in-fiery-new-years-eve-crash-on-dallas-highway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107330\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in fiery New Year&#8217;s Eve crash on Dallas highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were killed early Wednesday morning after their vehicle crashed and burst into flames on southbound North Central Expressway at West Northwest Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas police and Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to the single-vehicle scene around 5:30 a.m., where both occupants were pronounced dead after the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DALLAS &#8211; Two people died Wednesday morning after their vehicle caught fire following a crash on North Central Expressway, according to Dallas police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police responded to the single-vehicle wreck in the southbound lanes of North Central Expressway at West Northwest Highway around 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said the vehicle became engulfed in flames after the impact. Dallas Fire-Rescue crews extinguished the blaze and discovered two people inside the vehicle. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities have not determined what caused the driver to lose control. The Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has not yet released the names of the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article comes from Dallas police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Two people were killed early Wednesday morning after their vehicle crashed and burst into flames on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,48312,9379,104,103,401,32364,48311],"class_list":["post-107330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county-medical-examiner","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-north-central-expressway","tag-west-northwest-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107330","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=107330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}