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Podcast: The Dallas Morning News
Episode: Mother of crash victim urges state leaders to improve tollway safety ... and more news
Description: On the fourth anniversary of her daughter’s death on a Fort Worth toll road, Cindy Gerred urged local and state leaders to adopt stricter safety standards on Texas tollways so that a similar event never happens again. The February 2021 collision is frozen in the minds of North Texas as one of the deadliest crashes in state history, a chain-reaction pileup that killed six people and injured dozens. Vehicles slid on black ice after 36 consecutive hours of freezing temperatures. In other news, a state appeals court says Dallas can’t enforce a ban limiting where short-term rentals listed on plat...