The Brief<\/p>\n
A 37-year-old woman was killed early Sunday morning after running across the Sam Rayburn Tollway and into oncoming traffic on an access road in Plano.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman exited a vehicle on the tollway for unknown reasons before being struck by an SUV on the south access road.<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation by the Plano Police Department, and the victim’s identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n
PLANO, Texas – A 37-year-old woman was struck and killed early Sunday morning after running across Sam Rayburn Tollway and into oncoming traffic on an access road, police said.<\/p>\n
Plano fatal pedestrian crash<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
The incident happened shortly before 1:30 a.m. along the eastbound access road of State Highway 121 near Ohio Drive.<\/p>\n
According to Plano police, the woman got out of a vehicle on the Sam Rayburn Tollway for unknown reasons and ran south across the highway. When she tried to cross the south access road, an SUV struck her.<\/p>\n
First responders with Plano Fire-Rescue attempted lifesaving measures, including CPR, but the woman died at the scene. Plano Police have identified her as Christiana Jami Vasquez, of Plano.<\/p>\n
According to police, the driver of the SUV was not injured and remained at the scene, cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation by the Plano Police Department’s traffic unit, and no further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this article is from the Plano Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A 37-year-old woman was killed early Sunday morning after running across the Sam Rayburn Tollway and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[142750,110716,160,162,161,722,1934,64409],"class_list":["post-408558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-access-road","tag-oncoming-traffic","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-police","tag-plano-police-department","tag-sam-rayburn-tollway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408558","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=408558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}