{"id":310335,"date":"2026-05-27T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310335\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:00:09","slug":"bicyclist-dead-following-memorial-day-crash-on-i-20-in-arlington-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310335\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist dead following Memorial Day crash on I-20 in Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bicyclist died Monday afternoon after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic-accidents\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit by a vehicle<\/a>\u00a0on Interstate 20 in Arlington, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded about 3:49 p.m. to reports of a crash involving a 2005 Toyota\u00a0Prius and a bicycle on eastbound I-20 near\u00a0Matlock Road.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined the unidentified bicyclist was crossing the interstate when a vehicle, which was traveling in the second lane, swerved to avoid them.\u00a0A second vehicle, identified as the Toyota, was traveling behind when it struck the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist died at the scene, according to the statement, and the occupants of the Toyota sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Eastbound lanes of I-20 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">temporarily closed<\/a> near Cooper Street while officers investigated the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bicyclist died Monday afternoon after being hit by a vehicle\u00a0on Interstate 20 in Arlington, police said in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-310335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310335","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=310335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}