{"id":442113,"date":"2026-09-20T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:16:11","slug":"roanoke-motorcycle-officer-in-critical-condition-after-fiery-crash-near-texas-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442113\/","title":{"rendered":"Roanoke motorcycle officer in critical condition after fiery crash near Texas Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-20-101429.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ROANOKE, Texas &#8211; A Roanoke police officer is in critical condition following a fiery multi-vehicle crash early Sunday morning involving a fleeing motorcyclist near Texas Motor Speedway, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   Fiery crash in Roanoke <\/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 incident happened in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 20, 2026, along State Highway 114 just west of Interstate 35W.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Roanoke Police Department, officers were conducting targeted traffic enforcement along SH 114 following numerous complaints of high-speed motorcycles in the area for an event at the nearby speedway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A Roanoke officer operating a police motorcycle tried to initiate a traffic stop on a speeding motorcycle, but the rider refused to stop and fled. During the pursuit, both the police motorcycle and the fleeing suspect crashed with a third vehicle on the highway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The injured officer was taken to a local hospital, where police said he is currently in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fleeing suspect was taken into custody and also transported to a hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities have not released further details regarding the ongoing investigation or updates on the officer&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Roanoke Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/denton-county\/denton\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denton<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ROANOKE, Texas &#8211; A Roanoke police officer is in critical condition following a fiery multi-vehicle crash early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1313,1643,223,27,29,28,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-442113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-denton","tag-denton-county","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442113","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=442113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}