{"id":370362,"date":"2026-07-12T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370362\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:01:08","slug":"dallas-police-investigate-fatal-crash-that-shut-down-central-expressway-lanes-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370362\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police investigate fatal crash that shut down Central Expressway lanes Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783875668_179_DPD-Dallas-Police-car.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A multi-vehicle crash on a major Dallas freeway left one person dead and sent several others to the hospital early Sunday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   North Central Expressway crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dallas Police officers responded to a report of a major accident on the northbound lanes of North Central Expressway near Royal Lane at 8:14 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A preliminary investigation by detectives determined that multiple vehicles were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel treated several individuals at the scene before taking multiple people to a local hospital. Authorities confirmed that one person has since died as a result of their injuries. The identities and conditions of those involved have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The northbound lanes of the freeway experienced delays while emergency crews worked to clear the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/north-dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A multi-vehicle crash on a major Dallas freeway left one person dead and sent several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,223,326,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-370362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-north-dallas","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370362","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=370362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}