{"id":16057,"date":"2025-10-22T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:59:08","slug":"18-wheeler-driver-wanted-for-deadly-plano-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16057\/","title":{"rendered":"18-wheeler driver wanted for deadly Plano hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/good-day-clean-tuesday-2025_10_21-kdfweme001_03_58_00.01.55.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PLANO, Texas &#8211; State troopers are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash on the Dallas North Tollway on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash happened around 6:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the tollway near Spring Creek Parkway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, investigators believe the driver of an 18-wheeler made an unsafe lane change and struck a Honda Civic.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">That caused the Civic to crash into a concrete wall and flip. Two other vehicles then crashed into the Civic.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the Civic died at the scene. He was identified as 47-year-old Juan Quiroz from Dallas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the 18-wheeler kept going and didn\u2019t stop to help.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The two other drivers were not hurt.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">DPS investigators are still working to find and identify the driver of the 18-wheeler.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They are treating the case as a hit-and-run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from Texas DPS.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/plano\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PLANO, Texas &#8211; State troopers are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash on the Dallas North Tollway on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,223,160,162,161,272,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-16057","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-traffic","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057","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=16057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}