{"id":420509,"date":"2026-08-29T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420509\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:30:12","slug":"medical-event-possible-for-driver-before-arlington-crash-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420509\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical event possible for driver before Arlington crash: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_arlington_PD_car_day_5_1_5FO23H9C_L857284210.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Fort Worth Star-Telegram archive<\/p>\n<p>A man who died Thursday may have experienced a medical event while he was driving and just before his sedan crashed in Arlington, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The sedan was traveling east along Arkansas Lane about 9 p.m. when it crossed the center median and westbound traffic lanes, and moved through grass near Arkansas Lane and Southgate Street, Arlington police said.<\/p>\n<p>The car crossed Southgate Street and crashed into a dumpster enclosure at a business, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who was the only person in the sedan, was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tcbpm.appianportalsgov.com\/mepublicportal\">Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office<\/a> identified the man who died as 77-year-old Roy Urquhart and determined his death was an accident caused by blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published August 28, 2026 at 6:52 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788035412_158_EmersonClarridge_Profile.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Emerson Clarridge\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Clarridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Star-Telegram archive A man who died Thursday may have experienced a medical event while he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-420509","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\/420509","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=420509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}