{"id":435601,"date":"2026-09-14T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435601\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:12:10","slug":"semi-driver-charged-with-dwi-after-fatal-mesquite-crash-on-ih-635","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435601\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi driver charged with DWI after fatal Mesquite crash on IH-635"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ulises-mendez-hernandez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Ulises Mendez Hernandez (Source: Mesquite Police Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MESQUITE, Texas &#8211; A Dallas man was killed last week when his car crashed into the trailer of a slow-moving semi-truck on Interstate 635 in Mesquite, police said.<\/p>\n<p>   Arrest in fatal Mesquite crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Mesquite Police Department responded to the crash at 3:17 a.m. on Sept. 9 in the 21100 block of northbound IH-635, near North Gross Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators learned that a white Alfa Romeo sedan crashed into the trailer of an 18-wheeler. The driver of the sedan, identified as 36-year-old Jose Aguilar Renteria of Dallas, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver of the semi-truck, identified as 30-year-old Ulises Mendez Hernandez of Mexico, was arrested at the scene and charged with driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Mesquite Police Department Traffic Unit is continuing to investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Mesquite Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/mesquite\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mesquite<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Ulises Mendez Hernandez (Source: Mesquite Police Department) MESQUITE, Texas &#8211; A Dallas man was killed last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,1295,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-435601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-mesquite","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435601","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=435601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}