{"id":429051,"date":"2026-09-07T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429051\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:00:08","slug":"two-arlington-residents-killed-in-five-vehicle-crash-north-of-hillsboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429051\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Arlington residents killed in five-vehicle crash north of Hillsboro"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 12-year-old remains in critical condition following the Saturday night crash on State Highway 171, according to Texas DPS.<\/p>\n

HILLSBORO, Texas \u2014 Two people were killed and two others critically injured in a five-vehicle crash north of Hillsboro Saturday night, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n

DPS troopers responded around 8:30 p.m. Sept. 5 to the crash on State Highway 171 near County Road 4223.<\/p>\n

Investigators said a Ford Fiesta traveling north passed a pickup truck before returning to the right lane and striking equipment being towed by a northbound farm tractor. The collision caused the farm equipment to detach.<\/p>\n


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A southbound Chevrolet Traverse and Ford F-150 then crashed into objects left in the roadway, DPS said. The driver and passenger of the F-150 and a 12-year-old passenger from the Traverse got out of their vehicles and were standing in the road when another vehicle struck them.<\/p>\n

Katherine Barton, 39, of Arlington, was pronounced dead at the scene. Zachary Barton, 39, also of Arlington, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

The 12-year-old remains in critical condition. The driver of the Ford Fiesta was also taken to an area hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n

No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Investigators suspect alcohol may have contributed to the initial crash. DPS said the investigation remains active and the victims\u2019 next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old remains in critical condition following the Saturday night crash on State Highway 171, according to Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-429051","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\/429051","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=429051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}