{"id":16078,"date":"2025-10-22T18:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16078\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:17:16","slug":"man-killed-in-dallas-north-tollway-crash-in-plano-on-tuesday-other-driver-fled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16078\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in Dallas North Tollway crash in Plano on Tuesday; other driver fled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 47-year-old man from Dallas died in a hit-and-run accident that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/10\/21\/dallas-fort-worth-traffic-heres-what-to-know-for-your-tuesday-morning-commute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/10\/21\/dallas-fort-worth-traffic-heres-what-to-know-for-your-tuesday-morning-commute\/\">prompted the closure of all northbound lanes<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-north-tollway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-north-tollway\/\">Dallas North Tollway<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/plano\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/plano\/\">Plano<\/a> early Tuesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">DPS troopers responded to a four-vehicle crash on Dallas North Tollway near Spring Creek Parkway at about 6:30 a.m., according to a news release from the agency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Authorities said a preliminary investigation found that a driver traveling north in an 18-wheeler \u201cmade an unsafe lane change and struck a Honda Civic.\u201d This caused the Honda to crash into the concrete wall and flip over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Both a Ram 1500 truck and a Toyota Camry struck the Honda. The driver of the Honda \u2014 Juan Quiroz of Dallas \u2014 died at the scene, authorities said.<\/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>Related<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__2UraD flex-none object-cover dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/XT5VH5SLPVEMPC6NFVWXP7G5C4.jpg\" alt=\"All lanes of northbound Dallas North Tollway in Plano were closed at Spring Creek Parkway...\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The drivers of the Ram and Camry were not injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Authorities said the driver of the 18-wheeler left the scene. Consequently, the crash is being investigated as a hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing, officials said. Additional information was not available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old man from Dallas died in a hit-and-run accident that prompted the closure of all northbound lanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[960,102,104,103,12904,160,12903,272,975,840],"class_list":{"0":"post-16078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-ntta","13":"tag-plano","14":"tag-texas-tollways","15":"tag-traffic","16":"tag-traffic-accidents","17":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078","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=16078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}