{"id":429253,"date":"2026-09-08T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429253\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:44:12","slug":"two-arlington-residents-die-in-hillsboro-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429253\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Arlington residents die in Hillsboro car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two Arlington residents were killed and two other people were injured Saturday night in a multi-vehicle crash in Hillsboro, according to KWTX<\/a> and the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n

Zachary and Katherine Barton, both 39, were killed in the five-vehicle crash on State Highway 171 near County Road 4223, KWTX reported.<\/p>\n

A farm tractor towing equipment was traveling northbound with its lights flashing when another northbound vehicle, a Ford Fiesta, passed a pickup truck and re-entered the right lane, according to a DPS report obtained by KWTX.<\/p>\n

When the Fiesta entered the right lane, it struck the farm equipment, causing the equipment to detach from the tractor, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Moments later, a southbound Chevrolet Traverse and a Ford F-150 crashed into objects on the roadway, KWTX reported. The Bartons, who were traveling in the F-150, and a 12-year-old passenger of the Traverse, exited the vehicles and were standing on the roadway when they were struck by another vehicle.<\/p>\n

The 12-year-old passenger of the Traverse was hospitalized in critical condition, according to KWTX. One other person was injured, but details on their condition were not immediately available Monday.<\/p>\n

DPS investigators believe alcohol may have been a contributing factor in the initial crash, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. Two Arlington residents were killed and two other people were injured Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-429253","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\/429253","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=429253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}