{"id":396416,"date":"2026-08-03T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396416\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:53:08","slug":"dallas-police-officers-escape-injury-after-cruiser-gets-slammed-in-multi-vehicle-i-45-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396416\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police officers escape injury after cruiser gets slammed in multi-vehicle I-45 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dpd-crash-i-45-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Two Dallas police officers escaped injury overnight after their cruiser was caught in a multi-vehicle pileup on Interstate 45, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>   DPD 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=\"\">The crash happened just after midnight in the northbound lanes of I-45 near Overton Road following an initial three-car crash. An 18-wheeler approaching the scene managed to slow down, but a Dallas Police SUV and another vehicle were unable to avoid the collision.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The police cruiser was forced into a guardrail before being struck by a box truck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Both officers in the SUV were unharmed. A prisoner being transported in the vehicle at the time of the crash was taken to a local hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Northbound lanes of I-45 were closed for approximately three hours while crews cleared debris from the roadway. The highway has since reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from Dallas Police on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Two Dallas police officers escaped injury overnight after their cruiser was caught in a multi-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,401,223,1827,216,393],"class_list":["post-396416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396416","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=396416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}