{"id":422873,"date":"2026-09-01T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422873\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:30:19","slug":"36-year-old-hit-killed-after-crash-shutting-down-us-75-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422873\/","title":{"rendered":"36-year-old hit, killed after crash, shutting down US 75 overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 A 36-year-old man died overnight Monday following a three-vehicle crash that shut down US 75 for hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported around 8:55 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30, in the southbound lanes of US 75 near Belt Line Road, the Richardson Police Department said in a press release. Investigators found that the driver of a Ford pickup with a blown tire was traveling slowly in the southbound lanes of US 75 when it was hit from behind by an Infiniti sedan, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Both cars stopped in the left lane of the highway and got out of their vehicles, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A secondary crash occured when a Volkswagen struck the driver of the Infiniti, officials said. The victim, 36-year-old Michael Barrera, was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Volkswagen also struck the Ford pickup and its driver, who was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The driver of the Volkswagen and the passenger of the Infiniti were uninjured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richardson police are investigating the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 A 36-year-old man died overnight Monday following a three-vehicle crash that shut down US 75 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-422873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422873","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=422873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}