{"id":253709,"date":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","slug":"two-men-die-in-car-crash-near-downtown-fort-worth-on-thursday-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253709\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men die in car crash near downtown Fort Worth on Thursday, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fort Worth Star-Telegram;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fort Worth Star-Telegram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"272\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a00d18d0-6a21-11eb-bff5-9950f532eca7.png\"\/><\/a>Thu, April 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"760\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1b5a6f0d17f139d7959eaf2a7b0b2d30.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.<\/p>\n<p>Two men died and a firefighter was hospitalized after a car crash near downtown Fort Worth late Thursday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and fire crews responded to the scene of the crash near 1940 Delga St. at around 11:28 a.m., according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>There, officers found that a moving car had struck a parked vehicle and continued a short distance before stopping. A passenger in the moving car was found dead; the driver died at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, fire crews found a \u201clarge amount of an unknown chemical\u201d inside the vehicle that had been moving. One firefighter was taken to a hospital to be treated for possible exposure to the chemical, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the department\u2019s Traffic Investigations Unit are investigating. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will identify the victims and determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, April 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM UTC Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. Two men died and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8691,43330,116,118,117,34721],"class_list":["post-253709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-downtown-fort-worth","tag-firefighter","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-thursday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253709","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=253709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}