{"id":58222,"date":"2025-11-20T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58222\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:28:11","slug":"driver-charged-with-manslaughter-for-tre-train-crash-that-killed-5-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58222\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged with manslaughter for TRE train crash that killed 5-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_8510.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth police have filed manslaughter charges against the driver of a car following a deadly crash with a TRE train. A 5-year-old child died in that crash.<\/p>\n<p>   Fort Worth Car Hit by Train <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/v-fw-hickory-dr-train-vs-car-9p_00.00.13.58.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A spokesman for the Fort Worth Police Department said 24-year-old Fabian Riojas is now charged with manslaughter for Wednesday afternoon\u2019s crash that killed his 5-year-old passenger.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;The barricades were down on the train, around the train tracks. With that being said, to everyone\u2019s knowledge, to the witnesses, the train was coming. This person decided he wanted to go past the barricade. In the midst of going past the barricades, the TRE struck the [car.] And then with there being a small child in the back, this was something that was preventable,&#8221; said Tracy Carter, with Fort Worth PD. &#8220;If the young gentleman just would have just taken his time and just waited for the train to clear, which wouldn\u2019t have been very long. It\u2019s just a sad day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police confirmed that Riojas is related to the child but did not specify how.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Riojas suffered only minor injuries. His mugshot has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Carter said this case was difficult for the officers who responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;One of the things I also want to put out there is we pray for the officers that responded to this because we\u2019re all mothers. We\u2019re dads. You know, we\u2019re brothers. We\u2019re sisters. And this is just something. You don\u2019t want to see a 5-year-old perish the way this kid perished, right? And so again, we\u2019re praying for everyone, all that were involved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He begged people to always stop for barricades that are down, even if there\u2019s no train in sight.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Please, please, you don\u2019t go through. Let the train proceed, even if you don\u2019t see the train. They\u2019re down for a reason. And even if they\u2019re malfunctioning, you lose 10 or 15 minutes to save your life or someone else\u2019s life. I think that matters more,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Fort Worth Police Department and an interview with spokesman Tracy Carter.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth police have filed manslaughter charges against the driver of a car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-58222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58222","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=58222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}