{"id":190377,"date":"2026-03-04T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190377\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:33:07","slug":"officials-id-man-who-fort-worth-police-said-fled-crash-collided-with-a-tree-and-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190377\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials ID man who Fort Worth police said fled crash, collided with a tree and died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 33-year-old has been identified as the man who died Monday after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2026\/03\/02\/man-dies-after-fleeing-scene-of-accident-crashing-car-during-fort-worth-police-pursuit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit-and-run investigation<\/a> turned into a pursuit with Fort Worth police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Sam Chavarria died from blunt force injuries Monday at 5:14 p.m. during a collision in the 3600 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Fort Worth police said they were chasing  Chavarria\u2019s vehicle after officers learned he was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run  near the eastbound lanes of West Freeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 911 caller reported his vehicle was hit and he was following the suspect vehicle, which did not stop after the collision, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/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\">Officers located the suspect vehicle and attempted a traffic stop. Police said  Chavarria didn\u2019t yield, leading to a brief pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Fort Worth police said they were chasing  Chavarria\u2019s vehicle when he hit a curb, lost control and crashed into a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Chavarria was the only person inside the vehicle, and no injuries to officers or pedestrians were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old has been identified as the man who died Monday after a hit-and-run investigation turned into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,116,118,117,122,975],"class_list":["post-190377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-traffic-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190377","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=190377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}