{"id":414551,"date":"2026-08-23T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:36:27","slug":"driver-arrested-after-wrong-way-crash-kills-motorcyclist-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414551\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested after wrong-way crash kills motorcyclist \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irving Police said a wrong-way driver accused of driving intoxicated caused a fatal head-on collision Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a vehicle traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of SH114 near Hidden Ridge crashed into a motorcycle around 2:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist died at the scene, according to the Irving Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Irving Police said officers arrested the driver, who they said was intoxicated. A passenger was also arrested, accused of public intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>Officers shut down SH114 for more than 6 hours as police finished their investigation and cleared the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The roads were reopened by 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irving Police said a wrong-way driver accused of driving intoxicated caused a fatal head-on collision Saturday morning. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1266],"class_list":["post-414551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-irving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414551","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=414551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}