{"id":349190,"date":"2026-06-24T23:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349190\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:53:15","slug":"fort-worth-woman-among-six-killed-in-fiery-hill-county-head-on-crash-that-also-injured-one-dps-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349190\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth woman among six killed in fiery Hill County head\u2011on crash that also injured one, DPS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have released the identities of four adults and the ages of two young children killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/hill-county-fatal-crash-bynum-malone-sh171-five-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fiery head\u2011on collision over the weekend between Bynum and Malone in Hill County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened shortly after 4:30 p.m. Saturday on State Highway 171 near FM 3155, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dps.png#.png\" alt=\"dps.png \" height=\"538\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>DPS said a Nissan traveling north on SH 171 attempted to pass another vehicle and struck an approaching van head\u2011on, causing both vehicles to become fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Two people in the Nissan \u2013   Sallie Evans Benson, 67, of Fort Worth, and Marvin Evans, 50, of Fort Collins, Colorado \u2013   were killed, according to DPS.<\/p>\n<p>Four people in the van \u2013 Amanda Fowler, 37; Sarah Johnson, 59; an 8\u2011year\u2011old boy; and a 7\u2011year\u2011old girl, all of Hillsboro \u2013 also died at the scene. A third child \u2013 a 10\u2011year\u2011old boy \u2013 was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life\u2011threatening, DPS said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have released the identities of four adults and the ages of two young children killed in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[520,116,118,117,430,27],"class_list":["post-349190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fatal-crash","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349190","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=349190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}