{"id":163138,"date":"2026-02-13T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163138\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:49:06","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-semi-truck-collision-on-dallas-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163138\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in semi-truck collision on Dallas freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/v-dallas-i30-semi-vs-ped-fatal-4a_00.00.02.30.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Fatal Dallas freeway accident (Terry Van Sickle) <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A pedestrian died Thursday night after being struck by a semi-truck on a Dallas freeway, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dallas police responded to a major accident in the northbound lanes of South R.L. Thornton Freeway near East Laureland Road at approximately 9:30 p.m. Investigators believe an 18-wheeler struck the pedestrian, who was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The freeway\u2019s northbound lanes were closed for roughly three hours during the investigation but reopened late Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal Dallas freeway accident (Terry Van Sickle) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has not yet released the victim&#8217;s identity, and it remains unclear why the pedestrian was on the highway. Police say the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Dallas police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Fatal Dallas freeway accident (Terry Van Sickle) DALLAS &#8211; A pedestrian died Thursday night after being struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-163138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163138","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=163138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}