{"id":17993,"date":"2025-01-16T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/one-dead-in-fiery-nine-vehicle-crash-on-texas-interstate-after-big-rig-driver-failed-to-slow-for-traffic-dps-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:11:09","slug":"one-dead-in-fiery-nine-vehicle-crash-on-texas-interstate-after-big-rig-driver-failed-to-slow-for-traffic-dps-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/one-dead-in-fiery-nine-vehicle-crash-on-texas-interstate-after-big-rig-driver-failed-to-slow-for-traffic-dps-says\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in fiery nine vehicle crash on Texas interstate after big rig driver failed to slow for traffic, DPS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>One person was killed and several others were injured in a major multi-vehicle collision in Hewitt, Texas, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) was notified of the crash on I-35 in Hewitt around 6 a.m. on January 15.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbrian.walker.37%2Fvideos%2F620017650707662%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Authorities say that six passenger vehicles and three semi trucks were involved in the fiery collision.<\/p>\n<p>TXDPS Sergeant Howard stated that \u201cthere was a truck-tractor semi trailer that was driving north on IH-35 near mile marker 326 and traffic was slow because there was a road crew doing some type of road work. As they were doing that road work, and traffic starts slowing down, this truck tractor still came in at a high rate of speed, crashing into several other vehicles and truck tractors in his path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer James, 39, passed away at the scene. Six other people were transported to nearby hospitals for treatment of injuries.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBobbyPoitevint%2Fvideos%2F1660755384851679%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Transportation officials warn of major traffic delays in the area as northbound I-35 traffic is being diverted\u00a0to Exit 328 (Spring Valley\/Sun Valley).<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/one-dead-in-fiery-9-vehicle-crash-on-texas-interstate-as-big-rig-diver-failed-to-slow-for-traffic-texas-dps-says\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed and several others were injured in a major multi-vehicle collision in Hewitt, Texas, on Wednesday morning. The Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) was notified of the crash on I-35 in Hewitt around 6 a.m. on January 15. Authorities say that six passenger vehicles and three semi trucks were involved in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}