{"id":169351,"date":"2026-02-18T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/169351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:02:39","slug":"one-dead-several-seriously-injured-in-wrong-way-crash-on-dallas-north-tollway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/169351\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, several seriously injured in wrong-way crash on Dallas North Tollway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One person is dead and several others are seriously injured following a head-on crash early Monday morning on the Dallas North Tollway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Hyundai Tucson traveling the wrong way in the southbound lanes near Royal Lane struck a Land Rover Velar at approximately 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The identities of the deceased driver and the injured passengers have not yet been released as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DALLAS &#8211; A head-on crash involving a wrong-way driver on the Dallas North Tollway left one person dead and several others seriously injured early Monday morning, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong way crash on DNT<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened at about 2 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the tollway near Royal Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A preliminary investigation by DPS troopers found that a Hyundai Tucson was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes when it struck a Land Rover Velar head-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the Hyundai was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver and passengers of the Land Rover were also taken to area hospitals with injuries described as serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities have not yet released the identities of those involved. The investigation remains ongoing, and no further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article is from the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief One person is dead and several others are seriously injured following a head-on crash early Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,13124,68561,68562,15633,68563,26023,6877],"class_list":["post-169351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-north-tollway","tag-hyundai-tucson","tag-land-rover","tag-preliminary-investigation","tag-royal-lane","tag-southbound-lanes","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169351","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=169351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}