{"id":448613,"date":"2026-09-26T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448613\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:50:20","slug":"updated-fatal-wreck-occurs-outside-dallas-arboretum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448613\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Fatal wreck occurs outside Dallas Arboretum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A person died outside the entrance of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden<\/a> in a wreck on Wednesday, Sept. 23. <\/p>\n

Dallas police responded to the accident call at about 7:22 p.m. near the intersection of East Lawther Drive and Garland Road. Officials told the Lakewood\/East Dallas Advocate that a motorcycle crashed with a van, causing the motorcycle driver to be thrown off and die at the scene. There were no other injuries reported, and the van driver stayed at the scene.<\/p>\n

On the Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s website<\/a>, there is record of a matching the details of this accident that identifies the deceased as 52-year-old Johnny Morales, Jr.<\/p>\n

This is an ongoing investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI am a North Texas native with roots in Arlington and Benbrook, and I graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018. My previous work has centered around small towns and cities west of Fort Worth, and my byline has appeared in The Springtown Epigraph\/The Tri-County Reporter, Weatherford Democrat, NewsBreak, Fort Worth Weekly and The Shorthorn. I am happy to serve in Lakewood, which I’ve heard referred to as a small town within the big city. Feel free to email me at medwards@advocatemag.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Getty Images A person died outside the entrance of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[139476,102,101570,104,103,154517,119985],"class_list":["post-448613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-city-of-dallas-police-department","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-arboretum-and-botanical-garden","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-east-lawther-drive","tag-garland-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448613","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=448613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}