{"id":457323,"date":"2026-10-05T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:24:08","slug":"arlington-texas-car-crash-kills-79-year-old-man-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457323\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington, Texas car crash kills 79-year-old man, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791235447_985_BREAKING NEWS (11).png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.<\/p>\n<p>A 79-year-old man who was seriously injured in a rollover crash last week in Arlington died at a hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Alan Whicker died on Oct. 1 due to blunt force injuries from the crash, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tcbpm.appianportalsgov.com\/mepublicportal\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 5 p.m. Sept. 28 along West Green Oaks Boulevard near Ron McAndrew Drive, Arlington police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined a 2019 Cadillac XT5 was traveling southbound on Green Oaks when it went over the curb on Ron McAndrew Drive and hit a pole, police said. The car then rolled over, landing upright in a ditch alongside the road.<\/p>\n<p>Whicker and the driver of the Cadillac were taken to a hospital. The driver, a 73-year-old woman, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791235448_152_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. A 79-year-old man who was seriously injured in a rollover crash last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-457323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457323","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=457323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}