{"id":215714,"date":"2026-03-22T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215714\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:00:07","slug":"child-killed-in-one-vehicle-crash-on-north-central-expressway-in-dallas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215714\/","title":{"rendered":"Child killed in one-vehicle crash on North Central Expressway in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A child was killed after a vehicle slammed into a wall late Saturday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2025\/12\/31\/all-northbound-lanes-of-us-75-shut-down-after-fatal-crash-near-i-635\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:North Central Expressway;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;North Central Expressway&quot;}\" class=\"link \">North Central Expressway<\/a> in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police responded to the accident shortly after 10 p.m. in the 13700 block of North Central Expressway, near Spring Valley Road. The preliminary investigation indicated the car hit a wall, police said in an email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver and a child were taken to a local hospital, where the child died. Authorities have not released the name or age of the child, and the driver&#8217;s condition is not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was not immediately clear what caused the driver to hit the wall, and police said the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The wreck shut down several lanes of traffic for hours late Saturday and early Sunday. Traffic cameras from the Texas Department of Transportation still showed backups mid-Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The highway, also known as U.S. Highway 75, was the site of another fatal accident earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly after noon Friday, a motorcycle driver was northbound on the connector ramp from North Central Expressway to the President George Bush Tollway in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/richardson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Richardson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Richardson&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Richardson<\/a> when he failed to negotiate a curve and was ejected, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities identified the motorcycle driver as 35-year-old William Anthony Matlock Jr., of Garland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child was killed after a vehicle slammed into a wall late Saturday on North Central Expressway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,10504,103,401,32364,15633],"class_list":["post-215714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-north-central-expressway","tag-preliminary-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215714","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=215714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}