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DALLAS – A North Texas mother of three is dead, and her husband is in critical condition after a wrong-way crash early this week on Central Expressway in Dallas.<\/p>\n
Fatal wrong-way crash <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Late Monday evening into early Tuesday, Ruby Gonzalez’s husband Kevin was working late. She picked him up, hopped in the passenger seat, and then they were headed home southbound on I-75 Central Expressway near Royal Lane.<\/p>\n
Early Tuesday morning, around 1:30 a.m., Dallas police say a wrong-way driver in a sedan, traveling north in the southbound lanes of Central Expressway, collided head-on into the couple’s Mercedes SUV.<\/p>\n
Both were rushed to the hospital where Ruby later died. Kevin remains in the ICU as of Friday, though he is reportedly progressing slowly toward recovery.<\/p>\n
There is an active GoFundMe set up for the grieving family, which you can access at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n The culprit:<\/p>\n The wrong-way driver was pronounced dead on scene. He was later identified as 23-year-old Christopher Ourfalian. The reason he was driving the wrong way is still under investigation.<\/p>\n Family and friends devastated <\/p>\n A group of Ruby’s closest friends are now grieving the “glue” who held them all together.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “You cannot replace somebody like that in this world,” said Ruby’s friend Matt Epstein. “There will not be another Ruby.”<\/p>\n Ruby and Kevin were high school sweethearts, and got married in Spain. Together they had three children, including a 3-month-old.<\/p>\n “It’s impossible to recreate what she did for her children, and thinking about her newborn,” said Ruby’s friend Amanda Martinez. “He will never get to know his mother.”<\/p>\n “She is going to be very dearly missed,” Epstein said. “Her body may no longer be with us, but her spirit lives on.”<\/p>\n They’re reminded that time is fleeting, making every moment matter even more.<\/p>\n “It’s very sad to see that we won’t be doing life together,” Martinez said. “She just departed us one day.”<\/p>\n “Ruby had a very special way to bring joy to everybody’s heart,” said Epstein.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes from Dallas PD and FOX 4 interviews with friends of the victims.<\/p>\n Dallas<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS – A North Texas mother of three is dead, and her husband is in critical condition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1046,102,581,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":["post-305324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305324","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=305324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}