A woman was killed and a retired off-duty police officer injured in a crash Monday morning on Interstate 45 in southern Dallas.
It happened in the northbound lanes shortly after 4:30 a.m. along the 8800 block of Julius Schepps Freeway, near the Simpson Stuart Road exit.
According to police, a woman driving a gray Nissan tried to change lanes to overtake another vehicle when she struck the back of an SUV that was blocking a road crew.
The SUV was parked in the left lane with emergency lights flashing, police said, though it wasn't immediately clear if the lane was closed to traffic.
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The woman was pronounced dead at the scene by Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics, police said. Officers did not release her name.
The former officer was taken by paramedics to a nearby hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. A Dallas police spokesman did not say which agency the officer retired from.
All lanes of the highway were briefly closed as officers investigated.
