{"id":368455,"date":"2026-07-10T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368455\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:16:11","slug":"71-year-old-killed-after-car-falls-on-him-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368455\/","title":{"rendered":"71-year-old killed after car falls on him in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fort Worth Fire truck.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A 71-year-old Fort Worth man was killed Wednesday, July 8, after a car fell on top of him, officials say.\" alt=\"A 71-year-old Fort Worth man was killed Wednesday, July 8, after a car fell on top of him, officials say.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A 71-year-old Fort Worth man was killed Wednesday, July 8, after a car fell on top of him, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>            Fort Worth Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>A 71-year-old man was killed Wednesday after a car fell on top of him at his northeast Fort Worth home, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to the 3500 block of Regal Road after getting a call about someone trapped under a vehicle. They used their tools to release the man, but he was already dead, according to fire department spokesperson Craig Trojacek.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tcbpm.appianportalsgov.com\/mepublicportal\">identified the victim<\/a> as Christopher Jones and ruled his death an accident. His cause of death is listed as traumatic asphyxia on the medical examiner\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Headshot.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Harriet Ramos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Harriet Ramos covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 71-year-old Fort Worth man was killed Wednesday, July 8, after a car fell on top of him,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-368455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368455","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=368455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}