18-wheeler driver charged after deadly DWI crash on Loop 820
FORT WORTH, Texas - One person is dead, and another is seriously injured after a semi-truck crashed with multiple vehicles on W. Loop 820 at White Settlement Road early Thursday morning, police said.
The crash occurred around 1:30 a.m. and involved a small car, an SUV, and an 18-wheeler, causing all northbound lanes of W. Loop 820 to shut down.
The driver of the small car was pronounced dead on the scene. A passenger in the same vehicle was taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Police later arrested the driver of the 18-wheeler for suspected drunken driving.
Guadalupe Velazquez Cruz, 24, is charged with intoxication manslaughter.