{"id":297509,"date":"2026-05-17T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297509\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:24:00","slug":"crash-in-pleasant-grove-area-of-dallas-leaves-one-dead-another-injured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297509\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash in Pleasant Grove area of Dallas leaves one dead, another injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One driver is dead and another was injured early Sunday morning after a pickup truck ran a red light and struck an SUV on South Buckner Boulevard in Pleasant Grove area of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the SUV was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The identity of the deceased pickup driver has not yet been released pending family notification, and the police investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DALLAS &#8211; A driver is dead and another was injured early Sunday morning after a pickup truck ran a red light and struck an SUV in the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal Pleasant Grove crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Police responded to the two-vehicle collision in the 5500 block of South Buckner Boulevard at 1:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e7b3a0369b797144000cfbebcc385baf.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a preliminary investigation, the pickup truck failed to stop at a red light at the intersection and collided with the SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the pickup truck suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities have not yet released the driver&#8217;s identity pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/100ac9861c5d6adf6a55bf5fee4c9353.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the SUV was taken to a local hospital with injuries that officials described as non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article is from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief One driver is dead and another was injured early Sunday morning after a pickup truck ran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,401,108275,108276,3456,8356,334,15633,108277],"class_list":["post-297509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-family-notification","tag-pickup-driver","tag-pickup-truck","tag-pleasant-grove","tag-police-investigation","tag-preliminary-investigation","tag-south-buckner-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297509","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=297509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}