Motorist fatally hit by pickup truck on Northeast Loop 820 toll lanes in Fort Worth
A motorist died Thursday evening after his vehicle was hit by a pickup truck on a toll road in Fort Worth, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.
About 7 p.m. Thursday, police were dispatched to the 100 block of the North Texas Express westbound toll lanes of Northeast Loop 820 for a major accident involving two vehicles. The Fort Worth Fire Department and MedStar also responded.
Upon arrival, officers learned that the man who died had been traveling in a passenger vehicle westbound in the toll lanes of Northeast Loop 820. A pickup truck was also traveling westbound when its driver made an abrupt movement to exit the express lanes, police said.
The pickup hit the crash attenuator that divides the lanes of travel and the exit lanes, went airborne, and landed on top of the passenger vehicle, police said.
The man in the car that was hit was pronounced dead on the scene by medical personnel. The driver of the pickup truck was not injured.
The names of the man who died and the driver of the pickup truck have not been released.
Traffic Investigations Unit detectives will be conducting the on-scene investigation.
This story was originally published March 16, 2023 at 9:07 PM.
