A Chevrolet Camaro crashed through a backyard fence in Fort Worth on Sunday night, narrowly missing three young children gathered near a swimming pool.<\/p>\n
The children \u2014 a 2-year-old girl and her 5-year-old twin brothers \u2014 escaped without being hit by either the car or pieces of the fence and concrete barrier sent flying during the crash, FOX 4 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Camaro struck the barrier along Heritage Trace Parkway before being knocked back toward the roadway. The homeowners were not injured.<\/p>\n Fort Worth police cited the driver for reckless driving. A passenger was taken to a hospital after the crash.<\/p>\n Over The Line<\/p>\n Embedded media follows; please allow a moment to load.<\/p>\n The crash happened around 7 p.m. Sunday in the 1500 block of Heritage Trace Parkway near Harmon Road.<\/p>\n Alex Gunter, who lives nearby, told WFAA<\/a> she was in her backyard when she heard a car accelerating and could tell something was wrong.<\/p>\n A few houses away, the three children were near the family’s backyard pool.<\/p>\n Seconds later, the car crashed through the barrier.<\/p>\n FOX 4 reported that the Camaro struck a concrete pillar with enough force to send it back toward the roadway. Pieces of concrete and large rocks also flew into the yard without hitting the children.<\/p>\n The station identified the children as a 2-year-old girl and her 5-year-old twin brothers. Their parents told FOX 4 they were grateful their children were alive.<\/p>\n Back In The Road<\/p>\n Fort Worth police officers from the North Division responded to what was initially reported as a vehicle-versus-fence crash.<\/p>\n By the time officers arrived, the damaged car was in the roadway, WFAA reported.<\/p>\n Police cited the driver for reckless driving. FOX 4 reported that a passenger suffered a cut to the head and was taken to a hospital. WFAA reported the passenger’s condition was not immediately available.<\/p>\n No one in the homeowners’ family was injured.<\/p>\n Down The Block<\/p>\n For neighbors, the wreck sharpened concerns they say have been building along Heritage Trace Parkway.<\/p>\n Gunter told WFAA the roadway has increasingly felt like a “drag strip” and pointed to other crashes around the intersection.<\/p>\n Fort Worth City Councilmember Charlie Lauersdorf<\/a>, who represents the area, viewed video of the damage and said the situation needs attention.<\/p>\n He told WFAA he plans to take residents’ concerns to the city’s transportation and public works department and request an assessment or traffic study of the stretch.<\/p>\n The homeowners separately told FOX 4 they want to advocate for measures such as speed bumps and tougher ordinances aimed at reckless drivers.<\/p>\n If you want more stories like this, follow Guessing Headlights<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chevrolet Camaro crashed through a backyard fence in Fort Worth on Sunday night, narrowly missing three young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[151304,151303,116,118,117,3737,19285,75259,151305,126],"class_list":["post-436619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-car-crashed","tag-chevrolet-camaro","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-fox-4","tag-heritage-trace-parkway","tag-twin-brothers","tag-wfaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436619","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=436619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}