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Four people died in three separate crashes on Tarrant County freeways early Sunday, authorities said. The wrecks unfolded across Fort Worth and in Hurst between roughly 2 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., with investigations ongoing.<\/p>\n
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Two people were killed in a fiery crash on northbound Loop 820 in Hurst<\/a> about 3:45 a.m., when a vehicle slammed into an embankment and burst into flames, police said. Heat from the fire destroyed the vehicle\u2019s license plate and made the vehicle identification number inaccessible<\/a>, complicating efforts to identify the two people found dead inside.A man was fatally struck on southbound Interstate 35W near East Ripy Street in Fort Worth shortly before 2 a.m. after he got out to inspect damage from a minor crash<\/a>, Fort Worth police said. The driver who hit the man on I-35W fled the scene, and although the suspect vehicle was later found<\/a> at a different location, no arrests have been announced.A wrong-way driver on Texas 121 near the Sylvania Avenue exit collided with another vehicle around 4:30 a.m., killing one driver at the scene and sending the other driver to a hospital<\/a> in Fort Worth.The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will identify the victims from all three crashes after next of kin are notified, and investigations remain ongoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. Four people died in three separate crashes on Tarrant County freeways early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-316762","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\/316762","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=316762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}