{"id":461857,"date":"2026-10-10T04:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461857\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T04:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:38:21","slug":"driver-killed-friday-in-single-vehicle-crash-on-texas-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461857\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed Friday in single-vehicle crash on Texas 121"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/grapevine police car 233.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"One person was killed after their vehicle crashed and fell off Texas 121 in Grapevine early Friday, Oct. 9, police say.\" alt=\"One person was killed after their vehicle crashed and fell off Texas 121 in Grapevine early Friday, Oct. 9, police say.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        One person was killed after their vehicle crashed and fell off Texas 121 in Grapevine early Friday, Oct. 9, police say.<\/p>\n<p>            Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives<\/p>\n<p>A driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Texas 121 in Grapevine early Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred in the 700 block of Texas 121. According to police, the car left the road in the center median and hit the guardrail. The vehicle fell about 35 feet and landed near the railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The driver died at the scene, police said. The individual will be publicly identified by the <a href=\"https:\/\/tcbpm.appianportalsgov.com\/mepublicportal\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some lanes were temporarily closed right after the accident, but the highway didn\u2019t entirely shut down, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fatal crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" 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\/1791607101_869_Headshot.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Harriet Ramos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Harriet Ramos covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was killed after their vehicle crashed and fell off Texas 121 in Grapevine early Friday, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-461857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461857","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=461857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}