{"id":446322,"date":"2026-09-24T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446322\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:56:23","slug":"police-shut-down-fort-worth-highway-for-up-to-10-days-after-garbage-truck-crashes-into-bridge-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446322\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shut down Fort Worth highway for up to 10 days after garbage truck crashes into bridge support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A major Fort Worth highway will be shut down for up to ten days after a garbage truck crashed into a bridge support, killing the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident happened around 6 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. 287, the Fort Worth Police Department said in a press release. Two men in a garbage truck were exiting the highway when they struck several supporting pillars for the highway bridge that goes across Erath Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver was ejected and was declared deceased, and police said the passenger was transported to an area hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an update, police said that all lanes of U.S. 287 at Erath Street will be closed for seven to ten days while the damage is evaluated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After responding to the crash, authorities began diverting traffic off of U.S. 287.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Southbound Drivers will be forced to exit at Berry Street, and northbound drivers will be forced to exit at Wilbarger Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police advise the public to take alternate routes until the location is deemed structurally sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major Fort Worth highway will be shut down for up to ten days after a garbage truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,112914],"class_list":["post-446322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-garbage-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446322","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=446322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}