{"id":127947,"date":"2026-01-18T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:27:13","slug":"2-killed-in-wrong-way-crash-with-suspected-drunk-driver-in-south-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127947\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in wrong-way crash with suspected drunk driver in south Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were killed in a wrong-way crash with a suspected drunk driver in south Fort Worth early Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers were called to Interstate 35W at Garden Acres Drive shortly after 2 a.m. A car traveling south in the northbound lanes hit another vehicle, killing two of the occupants, according to police. Both died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Axel Perez, 18, was arrested and faces a charge of intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle, according to police records. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mepublic.tarrantcounty.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tarrant County Medical Examiner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tarrant County Medical Examiner<\/a> will publicly identify the two people who died.<\/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\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:news alerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed in a wrong-way crash with a suspected drunk driver in south Fort Worth early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55090,55091,116,118,117,55089,26024,28368,7224,25060],"class_list":{"0":"post-127947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-axel-perez","9":"tag-drunk-driver","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-garden-acres","14":"tag-interstate-35w","15":"tag-intoxicated-manslaughter","16":"tag-police-records","17":"tag-wrong-way-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127947","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=127947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}