{"id":109867,"date":"2026-01-03T22:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109867\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:07:05","slug":"driver-dead-after-fiery-crash-in-car-dealership-parking-lot-in-plano-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109867\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dead after fiery crash in car dealership parking lot in Plano, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver died after a fiery crash in the parking lot of a car dealership in Plano Saturday, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>PLANO, Texas \u2014 A driver died after a fiery crash in a car dealership parking lot in Plano Saturday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver was heading southbound in the 1500 block of Dallas Parkway when he lost control of the vehicle, veered off the roadway into a Subaru dealership parking lot and crashed into a concrete pole and unoccupied vehicle, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle caught fire and the driver was taken out of the vehicle, according to a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. The driver wasn&#8217;t identified, and no other injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the crash remains active.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. WFAA will update this story if additional information becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver died after a fiery crash in the parking lot of a car dealership in Plano Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-109867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109867","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=109867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}