{"id":448002,"date":"2026-09-26T01:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448002\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:44:32","slug":"hwy-287-reopens-after-crews-demolish-damaged-overpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448002\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy. 287 reopens after crews demolish damaged overpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/295-4p-tz-hwy-287-truck-v-bridge_00.00.00.14.jpg\" alt=\"PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Highway 287 delays expected to last days after crash \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/295-4p-tz-hwy-287-truck-v-bridge_00.00.00.14.jpg\" alt=\"PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Highway 287 delays expected to last days after crash \" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-a3924c54=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; U.S. Highway 287 is back open in Fort Worth after a fatal crash that severely damaged an overpass.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Texas Department of Transportation crews were able to completely remove the damaged bridge support and part of the Erath Street overpass overnight.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">All lanes on the northbound side are now open and one lane on the southbound side is getting through.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Crews are still doing cleanup on the southbound side, but at least some lanes are now open. That should help clear out the backup that started building early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/am-news-clean-friday-2026_09_25-kdfweme001_03_58_5_00.04.44.58.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Erath Street bridge was damaged in a fatal crash that happened on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Fort Worth Police Department, a Waste Management dumpster truck left the roadway and crashed into a bridge support pillar, snapping a concrete support.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One occupant was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene, while a second man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The impact forced the closure of U.S. 287 in both directions, routing drivers onto service roads.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Erath Street is expected to remain closed in that area through October.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Crews will have to rebuild the overpass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Texas Department of Transportation and the FOX 4 Traffic team.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/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":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; U.S. Highway 287 is back open in Fort Worth after a fatal crash that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,122,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-448002","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-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448002","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=448002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}