{"id":110441,"date":"2026-01-04T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110441\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:38:07","slug":"bystanders-in-plano-pull-driver-from-burning-car-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110441\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystanders in Plano pull driver from burning car after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/070925-sh-plano-pd-legacy-west-homicide-investigat_00.09.00.54.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PLANO, Texas &#8211; A man died Saturday afternoon after his vehicle crashed and caught fire along the Dallas Parkway, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   Fatal Dallas Parkway crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Plano Police officers and Plano Fire-Rescue personnel responded to the crash in the 1500 block of the southbound Dallas Parkway at 12:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A preliminary investigation found that a silver Hyundai Accent was traveling southbound when it struck a curb, left the roadway and collided with a concrete power pole. Before coming to a stop, the Hyundai crashed into an unoccupied Subaru Legacy parked at a nearby car dealership.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The vehicle then caught fire. Witnesses managed to pull the driver from the burning wreckage before first responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The driver was taken to the hospital where he died. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police are withholding the man&#8217;s identity pending notification of his next of kin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Plano Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/plano\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PLANO, Texas &#8211; A man died Saturday afternoon after his vehicle crashed and caught fire along the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-110441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-plano","11":"tag-plano-headlines","12":"tag-plano-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110441","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=110441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}