{"id":276403,"date":"2026-05-02T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:55:11","slug":"juvenile-killed-after-stolen-vehicle-fleeing-dwi-stop-bursts-into-flames-in-mckinney-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276403\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile killed after stolen vehicle fleeing DWI stop bursts into flames in McKinney, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A juvenile was killed and another injured early Saturday after a stolen vehicle fleeing a DWI traffic stop crashed and burst into flames in McKinney, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/collin-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies attempted a traffic stop around 4 a.m. after a vehicle nearly hit a patrol unit and was suspected of DWI, sheriff&#8217;s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled, leading deputies on a high\u2011speed pursuit and driving the wrong way, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Crash and fire at major intersection<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle crashed at Virginia Parkway and Independence Parkway in McKinney, erupting into flames moments later, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile driver escaped and was taken to a hospital. The juvenile passenger was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle had been reported stolen from a McKinney business, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available. McKinney police are handling the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A juvenile was killed and another injured early Saturday after a stolen vehicle fleeing a DWI traffic stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-276403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276403","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=276403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}