{"id":215975,"date":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","slug":"man-79-identified-as-person-who-died-after-loose-wheel-struck-car-on-i-35e-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215975\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 79, identified as person who died after loose wheel struck car on I-35E in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 79-year-old man was identified as the person killed Saturday morning after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2026\/03\/21\/driver-killed-after-loose-wheel-strikes-vehicle-on-i-35e-express-lanes-in-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/2026\/03\/21\/driver-killed-after-loose-wheel-strikes-vehicle-on-i-35e-express-lanes-in-dallas\/\">loose wheel from another vehicle struck his  car<\/a> on the highway in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Richard Hood Dunham died at the scene around 6:26 a.m., according to the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The crash occurred in the northbound express lanes of Interstate 35E near Eighth Street, according to a previous statement from the Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Investigators said a Chevrolet Tahoe traveling southbound lost a wheel. The detached wheel crossed into the northbound express lanes and struck Dunham\u2019s vehicle, killing him.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/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\">No further details about the accident were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 79-year-old man was identified as the person killed Saturday morning after a loose wheel from another vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13669,102,324,104,103,975,840],"class_list":["post-215975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-accidental-death","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fortworth","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-traffic-accidents","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215975","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=215975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}