{"id":166927,"date":"2026-02-16T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166927\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:13:06","slug":"driver-headed-the-wrong-way-on-a-dallas-tollway-dies-in-2-vehicle-crash-dps-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166927\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver headed the wrong way on a Dallas tollway dies in 2-vehicle crash, DPS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A person died in an early morning crash Monday after their vehicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/\">collided with another <\/a> while driving the wrong way on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/tollways\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/tollways\/\">Dallas tollway<\/a>, Department of Public Safety officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"> Two vehicles collided on the Dallas North Tollway near Royal Lane at 2:10 a.m., according to a news release from DPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The driver of a Hyundai Tucson was driving the wrong way by traveling northbound in the southbound lanes. DPS said the Hyundai collided head on with a Land Rover Velar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The driver and passengers inside the Land Rover were taken to a hospital with serious injuries, DPS 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 class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The person driving the Hyundai Tucson  died at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The tollway was closed for several hours Monday morning but has since reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person died in an early morning crash Monday after their vehicle collided with another while driving the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1225,11486,975,840],"class_list":{"0":"post-166927","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-public-safety","12":"tag-tollways","13":"tag-traffic-accidents","14":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166927","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=166927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}