{"id":410673,"date":"2026-08-19T08:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410673\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:48:42","slug":"wrong-way-crash-shut-down-westbound-lanes-of-state-highway-121-3-people-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410673\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way crash shut down westbound lanes of State Highway 121, 3 people killed"},"content":{"rendered":"

All westbound lanes of State Highway 121 are shut down due to a crash that killed three people Tuesday morning, according to Fort Worth Police. <\/p>\n

FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 All westbound lanes of State Highway 121 were shut down Tuesday morning in Fort Worth due to a crash that killed three people, according to Fort Worth Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The crash happened just before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in the westbound lanes of SH 121 near Riverside Drive, according to Fort Worth Police. Officers were notified that a Jeep was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes. One adult was driving the car, officials say.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Fort Worth Police say the vehicle driving the wrong way struck the back of a second vehicle with three occupants that attempted to move out of the way. No injuries were reported to the three occupants, officials say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Jeep continued driving and collided head-on with a third vehicle, identified as a four-door Sedan. The Sedan had four occupants inside, three adults and one child, police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two adult females in the Sedan were pronounced dead on scene, officials say. The adult male and a child in the Sedan were transported to the hospital for their injuries and are expected to survive, Fort Worth Police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The driver of the Jeep was also pronounced deceased on scene. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner will identify the deceased, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Traffic was being diverted onto the service road near the Fairview exit, officials say. The road reopened around 7:30 a.m. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All westbound lanes of State Highway 121 are shut down due to a crash that killed three people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-410673","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\/410673","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=410673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}