Three people injured in crash at North Locust and North Loop 288

Denton police and firefighters were dispatched to a crash involving a sedan and a pickup truck at about 4:19 p.m.

The preliminary investigation shows that the sedan was traveling in the northbound lanes of North Loop 288 frontage road. Investigators believe the sedan ran a stop sign, police spokesperson Amy Cunningham said.

A pickup traveling northbound on Locust struck the sedan.

When officers arrived, witnesses were attempting to open the sedan doors and help the female driver and male passenger out.

One occupant was trapped and firefighters had to extricate them. Cunningham said the report does not explicitly state it was a sedan occupant who was trapped but that it was most likely. 

Both sedan passengers were transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. The male passenger's injuries are the more severe of the two.

The pickup driver sustained minor injuries and went to the hospital as a precaution.

The westbound exit to North Locust (FM2164) from Loop 288 and northbound access to Locust were closed for about three hours as first responders attended to the crash.