{"id":128130,"date":"2026-01-18T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:19:17","slug":"crash-near-downtown-dallas-sends-18-wheeler-driver-to-hospital-spills-honey-buns-on-i-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128130\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash near Downtown Dallas sends 18-wheeler driver to hospital, spills honey buns on I-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">An 18-wheeler spilled pallets, oil and honey buns Sunday morning as it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic-accidents\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic-accidents\/\">overturned on Interstate 30<\/a> and its trailer went over a bridge, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The crash was reported around 6 a.m. Sunday and closed westbound lanes of Interstate 30 at Interstate 345, according to the Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">An 18-wheeler on the highway collided with a wall, sending its trailer over a bridge onto the ground below, according to deputies and the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2026\/01\/17\/crews-demolish-parts-of-interstate-30-in-downtown-dallas-for-planned-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2026\/01\/17\/crews-demolish-parts-of-interstate-30-in-downtown-dallas-for-planned-construction\/\">All lanes of east- and westbound I-30 already were closed<\/a> this weekend between the I-35E and I-45\/U.S. 75 interchanges, as part of the I-30 Canyon corridor improvement project. Closures are expected to continue through Monday at 5 a.m. <\/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 crash caused Interstate 30 to close and impacted the detour around downtown for almost three hours, according to TXDOT. Only the right shoulder remained open as the highway was cleared of pallets, oil and honey buns, according to deputies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The driver of the 18-wheeler was taken to a hospital in stable condition, according to deputies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">As of 9:10 a.m., TXDOT did not show the highway to be closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-wheeler spilled pallets, oil and honey buns Sunday morning as it overturned on Interstate 30 and its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,109,223,272,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-128130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-downtown-dallas","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-traffic-accidents"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128130","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=128130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}