{"id":403863,"date":"2026-08-11T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403863\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:44:11","slug":"pedestrian-flown-to-fort-worth-trauma-center-after-being-struck-by-18-wheeler-in-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403863\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian flown to Fort Worth trauma center after being struck by 18-wheeler in Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EARLY, Texas \u2014 A pedestrian was flown to a Fort Worth trauma center Tuesday morning after being struck by an 18-wheeler on Early Boulevard, according to the Early Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Early police and fire crews and Lifeguard EMS responded about 5:18 a.m. to the vehicle-pedestrian crash in the 1700 block of Early Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED| <a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/big-country\/child-among-two-dead-after-rollover-crash-in-brown-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Child among two dead after rollover crash in Brown County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation found that the driver of the 18-wheeler saw the pedestrian at the last moment and attempted to avoid the person but was unable to prevent the collision, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was walking in a traffic lane at the time of the crash and was difficult for the driver to see because of early-morning lighting conditions, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED| <a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/fatal-crash-in-brown-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fatal crash in Brown County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was transported by an Air Evac helicopter to a trauma center in Fort Worth for treatment. Police did not release the pedestrian\u2019s name or provide information about the person\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>No additional information was immediately released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EARLY, Texas \u2014 A pedestrian was flown to a Fort Worth trauma center Tuesday morning after being struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-403863","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\/403863","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=403863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}