{"id":32289,"date":"2025-11-02T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32289\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:22:07","slug":"truck-passenger-killed-during-traffic-crash-in-plano-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32289\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck passenger killed during traffic crash in Plano, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A man died following a single-vehicle crash in Plano Saturday night, according to a news release from the Plano Police Department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">At about 9:30 p.m., officers and Plano Fire-Rescue responded to a single-vehicle crash in the area of 14th Street and Los Rios Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Investigators determined that a white Chevrolet Silverado was traveling southbound on La Paz Drive, and was approaching 14th Street, when the driver attempted a left turn but accelerated through the maneuver, causing the vehicle to lose traction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The driver then tried to regain control and overcorrected, which caused the vehicle to rotate, the release said. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThe right side of the vehicle then collided with a wooden power pole, causing significant damage to the passenger side,\u201d the release said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The passenger, identified as Alex Rangle, 25, of Plano,  was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The driver, whose identity was not released by the police, was taken to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died following a single-vehicle crash in Plano Saturday night, according to a news release from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[223,160,162,161,272,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-32289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-plano","10":"tag-plano-headlines","11":"tag-plano-news","12":"tag-traffic","13":"tag-traffic-accidents"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289","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=32289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}