{"id":188503,"date":"2026-03-03T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:59:09","slug":"man-dies-in-crash-while-being-pursued-by-fort-worth-police-officials-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188503\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in crash while being pursued by Fort Worth police, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man who was driving a vehicle that police suspect was involved in an aggravated kidnapping died after fleeing a traffic stop and crashing into a concrete pillar, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 6:32 p.m. on Monday, March 2, the Fort Worth Police Department was investigating a suspect vehicle they believed was involved in an aggravated kidnapping, the Fort Worth Police Department said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers initiated a traffic stop of the suspect vehicle and drove away from police northbound on Interstate 35W, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect exited at Pharr Street and crashed into a concrete pillar underneath the overpass, officials say. The driver, who was the only person in the vehicle, died at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department&#8217;s Traffic Investigations Unit and the Major Case Unit are investigating the incident, and detectives are working to confirm what led to the pursuit, the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police did not immediately identify the deceased driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was driving a vehicle that police suspect was involved in an aggravated kidnapping died after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13216,75089,116,118,117,2238,75088],"class_list":{"0":"post-188503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-aggravated-kidnapping","9":"tag-concrete-pillar","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-fort-worth-police-department","14":"tag-police-suspect"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188503","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=188503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}