The Brief<\/p>\n
A multi-vehicle crash occurred on Northwest Highway 287 in North Fort Worth around 2 a.m. Friday, leading to a critical injury and an extended closure of the northbound lanes.<\/p>\n
One man was critically injured and ejected from his van after colliding with a tow truck; the driver of the tow truck was uninjured.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash is currently under investigation, and police have not yet released the identities of those involved or an update on the injured man’s condition.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas – A multi-vehicle crash closed a section of Northwest Highway 287 in North Fort Worth early Friday morning, leaving one man critically injured, according to Fort Worth police.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Fort Worth police officers responded to the major accident on the northbound lanes of NW Highway 287 near Blue Mound Road around 2 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
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Investigators determined a man was ejected from his van after it collided with a tow truck. The man was transported to a local hospital, where he remains in critical condition. The driver of the tow truck was reported to be uninjured and was not taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The crash investigation and cleanup required the closure of NW 287 for several hours, with crews also working to repair a broken highway barrier damaged in the collision.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and authorities have not yet released the identities of those involved or provided an updated condition report on the critically injured man.<\/p>\n
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Information in this article comes from Fort Worth police and TxDOT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A multi-vehicle crash occurred on Northwest Highway 287 in North Fort Worth around 2 a.m. Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28657,980,116,118,117,3737,28656,13126,28658,28467],"class_list":["post-50438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crash-investigation","tag-critical-condition","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-highway-287","tag-northbound-lanes","tag-northwest-highway-287","tag-tow-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50438","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=50438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}