{"id":436431,"date":"2026-09-15T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436431\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:28:35","slug":"car-crashes-near-swimming-pool-at-north-fort-worth-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436431\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes near swimming pool at north Fort Worth home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot 2026-09-14 160838.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A car crashed into the fence of a north Fort Worth home, narrowly missing three children playing at a backyard swimming pool on Sunday evening, Sept. 13, police said. The driver was cited for reckless driving.\" alt=\"A car crashed into the fence of a north Fort Worth home, narrowly missing three children playing at a backyard swimming pool on Sunday evening, Sept. 13, police said. The driver was cited for reckless driving.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A car crashed into the fence of a north Fort Worth home, narrowly missing three children playing at a backyard swimming pool on Sunday evening, Sept. 13, police said. The driver was cited for reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>            Screenshot from surveillance video<\/p>\n<p>A car crashed into the fence of a north Fort Worth home, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1DQVagkW4n\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">narrowly missing three children<\/a> playing in the backyard Sunday evening, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth police officers responded about 7 p.m. to the crash at a house near the 1500 block of Heritage Trace Parkway, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the car that had collided with the fence. The vehicle\u2019s front passenger was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>While police said the homeowners were not injured, the family told KTVT-TV that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/fort-worth-texas-car-crashes-fence-video-heritage-trace\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">car narrowly missed a toddler<\/a> and two other children who were playing in the backyard swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>In surveillance video shared by the family, the car is seen nearly striking the 2-year-old child who was walking near the fence. The parents said it was an act of God that their child was not hit, the CBS Texas station reported.<\/p>\n<p>The parents can be seen in the video rushing toward their children as the car smashes through the fence.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified driver was cited for reckless driving, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789460915_531_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car crashed into the fence of a north Fort Worth home, narrowly missing three children playing at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-436431","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\/436431","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=436431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}