Cement Truck Wreck Kills One, Closes Loop 820
Reporter Bill Miller with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that one person has died and two others were injured early Friday afternoon in a fiery wreck involving a small car and two large rigs, including a tanker, on westbound NE Loop 820. Police, firefighters and ambulance crews responded to the wreck, which was reported at 12:44 p.m. near the loop’s intersection with Blue Mound Road, officials said. Initial police reports stated that a person in a small car was killed. Two people were being taken to Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, a dispatcher for MedStar Ambulance Service said at 1:40 p.m. Lt. Paul Henderson, police spokesman, said he was told that a cement truck and the tanker were covered in flames.
Police said the cement truck might have lost control and slammed into stopped traffic, killing the driver of a small car. The cement truck’s exterior fuel tanks may have ruptured as the truck slid alongside a tanker truck that was in front of the car, police said.
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