{"id":387499,"date":"2026-07-27T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:16:08","slug":"47-year-old-motorcyclist-killed-in-arlington-crash-involving-18-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387499\/","title":{"rendered":"47-year-old motorcyclist killed in Arlington crash involving 18-wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785143768_546_arlington-police-department-generic-arlington-PD.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; A 47-year-old motorcyclist was killed Saturday night after his motorcycle collided with an 18-wheeler in Arlington, police said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers responded around 9:13 p.m. to the 3900 block of Avenue E East following reports of a crash involving a motorcycle and a tractor-trailer, according to the Arlington Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said the driver of the 18-wheeler was attempting to turn left from a store parking lot onto Avenue E when the motorcycle, traveling eastbound and rounding a curve, struck the side of the truck. The impact threw both the motorcyclist and a female passenger from the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The 47-year-old rider was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said he was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The female passenger suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening and declined transportation to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver of the 18-wheeler remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. No criminal charges have been filed, and the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office will release the identity of the motorcyclist pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by the Arlington Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/arlington\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; A 47-year-old motorcyclist was killed Saturday night after his motorcycle collided with an 18-wheeler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1046,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-387499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387499","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=387499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}