{"id":180500,"date":"2026-02-26T01:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180500\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:46:10","slug":"arlington-police-investigate-bus-crash-that-killed-bicyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180500\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington police investigate bus crash that killed bicyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Arlington, Texas police say they are investigating a Feb. 18 collision involving a school bus that killed a 67-year-old bicyclist.\" title=\"Arlington, Texas police say they are investigating a Feb. 18 collision involving a school bus that killed a 67-year-old bicyclist.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Arlington, Texas police say they are investigating a Feb. 18 collision involving a school bus that killed a 67-year-old bicyclist.<\/p>\n<p>            Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives<\/p>\n<p>Arlington police are investigating a Feb. 18 crash involving a school bus that killed a 67-year-old bicyclist, the department said in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, an Arlington ISD bus was trying to make a right-hand turn from Treecrest Drive onto the Interstate 20 frontage road when a man on a bicycle approached the intersection. The rider, who wasn\u2019t wearing a helmet, was thrown off in the collision and critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver immediately stopped, called 911 and tried to help the injured rider, police said. The four high school students on the bus were not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, William Roberts, died in the ICU trauma unit at Medical City Arlington hospital the following day, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mepublic.tarrantcounty.com\/\">Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office<\/a>. His official cause and manner of death are pending the results of an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Arlington Independent School District said in a statement that the district is cooperating fully with the police investigation. The driver resigned following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of respect for the ongoing investigation and student privacy, we are not able to share additional details,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>No criminal charges have been filed against the bus driver at this time, police said in the release. The investigation into the fatal accident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published February 25, 2026 at 11:43 AM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772048956_162_Headshot.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Harriet Ramos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Harriet Ramos covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington, Texas police say they are investigating a Feb. 18 collision involving a school bus that killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,72407,37109,66235,72408],"class_list":["post-180500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-bicyclist-killed","tag-interstate-20","tag-school-bus-crash","tag-treecrest-drive-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180500","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=180500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}