A street racing incident turned deadly Sunday night when a speeding sedan veered into oncoming traffic and struck a pickup truck head-on in the 5000 block of South Second Avenue, killing the truck driver, Dallas police said.
Officers initially responded to a crowd control call around 7:40 p.m., according to a Dallas Police Department press release. Witnesses reported that two vehicles were racing northbound on Second Avenue when one, a sedan, crossed into the southbound lanes and collided with a pickup truck. The second racing vehicle fled the scene, police said.
Dallas Fire-Rescue arrived to find the pickup truck overturned and the sedan with three occupants trapped inside. The pickup truck driver, a man, died at the scene. The sedan’s driver, a woman, and her two passengers were taken to a hospital in stable condition, though seriously injured. The impact ejected the sedan’s engine, underscoring the crash’s severity, police said.
The sedan driver faces a charge of racing causing death and will be booked into jail upon hospital release, according to authorities.
“The suspect driver was taken to a hospital in stable condition,” the police release stated. “Charges against the driver are pending.”
Police have not released the identities of the victim, the suspect, or the other injured passengers, nor have they identified the second racing vehicle or its driver. The circumstances leading to the sedan’s loss of control remain unclear, and the incident is under investigation.
Street racing continues to be a problem in the DFW metroplex, as previously reported by The Dallas Express. The Dallas Police Department has a designated Street Racing Task Force Team, which has arrested 90 people, confiscated 24 guns, and recovered five stolen vehicles so far this year, according to Keep Dallas Safe.
In August 2024, a street racer in Grand Prairie collided with an SUV not involved in the race, causing the SUV to burst into flames. Two adults and two children in the SUV were killed, and a third child was critically injured. A street takeover in Fort Worth in January 2023 led to the deaths of two of the four occupants of a red Camaro, which was fleeing the scene as police arrived to shut down the illegal takeover.