1 killed, 2 injured when car hits pole, rolls in north Fort Worth crash. Driver arrested
A woman was killed, two people were critically injured, and the driver was arrested after a car rolled over in a crash on Northwest 27th Street in north Fort Worth on Monday morning.
Fort Worth police responded to the accident about 1:20 a.m. in the 3000 block of NW 27th St.
Officers found that two people had been ejected from the vehicle and a woman was trapped. MedStar transported two of the passengers to hospitals in critical condition.
The woman who had been trapped was pronounced dead at the scene. A GoFundMe page started by her family identified the victim as 19-year-old Jacky Salazar Almaraz.
Investigators believe the car rolled after it hit a utility pole at high speed, police said.
The driver ran from the scene and was later taken into custody, according to police. Xavier Lopez, 20, was booked on charges of collision involving death and leaving the scene of an accident, according to jail records.
This story was originally published August 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM.
