{"id":419801,"date":"2026-08-29T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419801\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:22:16","slug":"driver-critically-injured-in-dart-train-crash-in-pleasant-grove-area-of-dallas-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419801\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver critically injured in DART train crash in Pleasant Grove area of Dallas, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was critically injured Friday evening when a passenger vehicle and a <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DART train<\/a> collided in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pleasant Grove area of Dallas<\/a>, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 6:40 p.m. near North Jim Miller Road and C.F. Hawn Freeway, according to Dallas Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>A DFR rescue unit came upon the crash as it happened and called it in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver of the vehicle was stuck inside, so a heavy rescue response was dispatched to the call,&#8221; DFR said in a news release. &#8220;However, the heavy rescue response was disregarded because the first arriving truck company was able to get the driver out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trainwreck.png#.png\" alt=\"trainwreck.png \" height=\"568\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Photo courtesy of Preston Colombrito  <\/p>\n<p>The driver was taken to a hospital in critical condition, DFR said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Train traffic was temporarily held until the scene was cleared,&#8221; DART spokesperson Erin Myers said. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DART Police are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was critically injured Friday evening when a passenger vehicle and a DART train collided in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9379,2261,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-419801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-dart","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419801","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=419801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}