{"id":43208,"date":"2025-11-10T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43208\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:32:07","slug":"wrong-way-crash-closes-south-freeway-express-lanes-near-morningside-dr-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43208\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way crash closes South Freeway express lanes near Morningside Dr. in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111025-sh-ftwpd-major-crash-ww-driver-north-fwy-_k_00.06.59.12.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A wrong-way driver traveling in the southbound lanes of the South Freeway struck three vehicles early Monday morning, including a city-owned vehicle and two semi-trucks, resulting in injuries and the indefinite closure of the express lanes.<\/p>\n<p>   South Freeway Crash <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash happened around 2:15 a.m. Monday near the intersection of South Freeway and East Morningside Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police said the driver, who was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes, was pinned underneath one of the semi-trucks after the collision. Fire crews were required to extricate the driver, who was taken to the hospital with injuries believed to be non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">One of the semi-truck drivers was also taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>  Express Lanes Closed <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The southbound express lanes of the freeway south of Meacham Boulevard remained closed Monday morning, and officials said the timeline for reopening is unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators believe alcohol was a contributing factor in the crash. A traffic detective is currently handling the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A wrong-way driver traveling in the southbound lanes of the South Freeway struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,122,272,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-43208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tarrant-county","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43208","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=43208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}