{"id":454523,"date":"2026-10-02T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454523\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:06:08","slug":"dart-train-hits-kills-pedestrian-crossing-the-tracks-in-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454523\/","title":{"rendered":"DART train hits, kills pedestrian crossing the tracks in Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/v-state-fair-dart-1p_00.01.46.18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">GARLAND, Texas &#8211; A pedestrian was killed after being hit by a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train in Garland on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Garland police said the deadly accident happened around 7 a.m. on the DART tracks near Newman and Austin streets.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DART officials confirmed a pedestrian attempted to cross the tracks ahead of a Blue Line train and was struck by the train.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The pedestrian died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Garland Road between Walnut and State streets was shut down on Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DART also set up a bus link to transport riders between the Forest Lane\/Jupiter and Downtown Garland stations.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The streets and train stations have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Garland Police Department and DART officials.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/garland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dart\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Area Rapid Transit<\/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 GARLAND, Texas &#8211; A pedestrian was killed after being hit by a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[581,2261,1282,223,1827,160,162,161,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-454523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas-county","tag-dart","tag-garland","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454523","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=454523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}