{"id":213319,"date":"2026-03-20T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213319\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:38:08","slug":"driver-killed-after-suv-collides-with-train-near-ferris-in-dallas-county-victim-ejected-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213319\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after SUV collides with train near Ferris in Dallas County; victim ejected, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was killed Friday afternoon after an SUV collided with a train in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas County<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 12:39 p.m. near Lavender Road and Miller Ferry Road, in Wilmer, just north of Ferris, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-county-sheriff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the SUV was struck by the train, and the driver was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said there was no train derailment as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the driver has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing, and no additional details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/toc-032026-wilmer-train-fatal.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"toc-032026-wilmer-train-fatal.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A driver was killed after being ejected from an SUV during a crash with a train in Dallas County Friday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Texas<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was killed Friday afternoon after an SUV collided with a train in Dallas County, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,16981,104,103],"class_list":["post-213319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-county-sheriff","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213319","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=213319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}