{"id":201465,"date":"2026-03-12T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:40:08","slug":"victim-entrapped-after-multi-car-crash-truck-fire-shut-down-us-highway-80-in-kaufman-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201465\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim entrapped after multi-car crash, truck fire shut down US Highway 80 in Kaufman County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash involving multiple vehicles, including an 18-wheeler, shut down all eastbound lanes of U.S. Highway 80 and its service road near Townsend Boulevard in Kaufman County just before 8 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-wheeler also caught fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/toc-03122026-traffic-accident-wednesday-am.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"toc-03122026-traffic-accident-wednesday-am.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                TxDOT<\/p>\n<p>TxDOT video from the scene shows the 18-wheeler&#8217;s burning cab in the service road with its cargo stretched across the median. Other wreckage from the crash, and what appears to be a gas spill, impacting the main lanes of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person was entrapped in the wreckage, according to the Forney Police Department. Their condition is not yet clear.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities expect the highway to be closed for multiple hours while the crash is investigated and cleaned up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kaufman County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash involving multiple vehicles, including an 18-wheeler, shut down all eastbound lanes of U.S. Highway 80 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6297,79431,27,29,28,79432,271],"class_list":["post-201465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-kaufman-county","tag-multi-vehicle-crash","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tractor-trailer-crash","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201465","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=201465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}